Re: Alpha FreeBSD port of PostgreSQL !!!

From: Alfred Perlstein <bright(at)wintelcom(dot)net>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
Cc: Nathan Boeger <nathan(at)khmere(dot)com>, "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Alpha FreeBSD port of PostgreSQL !!!
Date: 2000-11-04 00:51:15
Message-ID: 20001103165115.G5112@fw.wintelcom.net
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* Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> [001103 16:16] wrote:
> Alfred Perlstein writes:
>
> > Part of the problem is that Postgresql assumes FreeBSD == -m486,
>
> If that's all then go into src/template/freebsd and remove it.

ok, thanks for the pointer, I'll try to have some patches in the
near future.

> The interesting question is whether the spinlock code, which was written
> for Alpha/Linux, works (src/include/storage/s_lock.h). All the rest
> should work out of the box.

I'll see. :)

--
-Alfred Perlstein - [bright(at)wintelcom(dot)net|alfred(at)freebsd(dot)org]
"I have the heart of a child; I keep it in a jar on my desk."

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