Re: Fwd: Re: Compile fails on AIX 6.1

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: "Lars Ewald (web(dot)de)" <l(dot)ewald-web(at)lars-ewald(dot)de>
Cc: pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Fwd: Re: Compile fails on AIX 6.1
Date: 2014-07-25 22:32:48
Message-ID: 9218.1406327568@sss.pgh.pa.us
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"Lars Ewald (web.de)" <l(dot)ewald-web(at)lars-ewald(dot)de> writes:
> Hello Tom,
> today I was able to do some tests compiling Postgres on our AIX machine.

> And...it worked! :-) Configuring without spinlocks and readline worked fine for
> me and did not abort after compiling xlog.o/xlog.c.
> Any ideas why it does not work with spinlocks?

Well, spinlocks are what uses the assembler code that you're having
trouble with.

Note that while you can build with --disable-spinlocks, performance is
not likely to be acceptable. We don't really consider a platform
supported unless it's got working spinlocks.

regards, tom lane

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