Re: installing 7.2b3 on IRIX 6.5.13

Tom Lane wrote:

> Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> writes:
> > One of these days I'm going to write this down somewhere: GCC + Irix +
> > PostgreSQL does not work -- until proven otherwise and/or GCC is fixed.
>
> Oh. Yup, that should be documented or enforced by configure.
>
> > I was going to suggest myself someday that we force CC=cc, but it should
> > be done in configure.in (near line 274) and not in the template file.
>
> Makes sense to me to do it in configure.in. Shall we go ahead and put
> that in?
>
> > We've had successful reports for Irix in the past, so I don't think the -n
> > and -r flags are strictly necessary -- at least I'd like to see more
> > information regarding them. What makes -n32 and -r12000 better than, say,
> > -n64 and -r6000?
>
> Luis' followup indicated that -r wasn't really needed. Not sure about -n.
>
> regards, tom lane

sorry for following to tom (a mouse mistake)
In our case -n32 (force new 32 bit object(maybe -o32 in old platforms)) was
necessary because with 64 bit object we were getting linking errors.
-rx is processor instruction set, it is not necessary but I recommend it for
better performance.