Re: Is anyone interested in getting PostgreSQL working on mips[el]?

Martin,

I have installed the Sarge binutils on my "testing/Etch" system and all of the Postgresql regression test pass. I
don't know where to go from here, any suggestions?

Jim

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From: Martin Pitt <mpitt(at)debian(dot)org>
To: Jim Buttafuoco <jim(at)contactbda(dot)com>
Sent: Mon, 9 Jan 2006 16:10:18 +0100
Subject: Re: Is anyone interested in getting PostgreSQL working on mips[el]?

> Hi Jim!
>
> Jim Buttafuoco [2006-01-09 8:44 -0500]:
> > Martin,
> >
> > While my build farm mipsel system (corgi) get the sigbus as reported
> > below, lionfish does not. see
> > http://www.pgbuildfarm.org/cgi-bin/show_log.pl?nm=lionfish&dt=2006-01-08%2016:51:36
>
> This looks indeed fine. What's the difference between these two?
>
> > that I have. So it must be in the software. What do you think is
> > the best way to tell? I believe my raq is up to date as far as
> > debian packages for sarge.
>
> I can't test this on sarge/mips myself. I have a sid dchroot on a box
> from Florian Lohoff, that's all.
>
> Indeed it could very well be that Debian's sarge packages worked fine
> on mips and that this whole story turns out to be a gcc or libc bug in
> sid, I don't know. Maybe you could do the test with identical
> compiler/postgresql versions and identical postgresql
> patches/configure options once on sarge and once on sid?
>
> Thanks a lot for looking into this issue!
>
> Martin
>
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