Re: solaris 10 with gcc 3.3.2

Tom,

Yeah, I've already fired off a query about this gcc build to the source.

In my case, I downloaded it from www.sunfreeware.com, and, for good measure,
I also tried gcc 3.4.2 for solaris 9, on a solaris 10 box, and, indeed, it
looks like the same problem is there.

So, it's entirely possible that the build they've got listed for 10 was
either built on a version of solaris 10 which was earlier than what I'm
using (b69), or, it could have been built on a solaris 9 box.

Either way, I'm asking about it, because it does seem, to me, to be a gcc
problem.

I could try building gcc myself, but, that won't fix the problem with the
version on the sunfreeware site, which a lot of people rely on, I expect.

Regards,
Peter.

-----Original Message-----
From: Tom Lane [mailto:tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us]
Sent: Saturday, December 18, 2004 12:00 AM
To: Belbin, Peter
Cc: pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: [BUGS] solaris 10 with gcc 3.3.2

I wrote:
> This is standard practice for gcc: it tries to use "cleaned up"
> versions of system headers that will not elicit useless warnings from
> gcc. It's a good idea, actually, because the degree of insanity in
> vendor-supplied system headers is pretty depressing. But if the gcc
> install process generated an invalid "cleanup" file then you need to
> take that up with the gcc boys, not us.

On rereading this, a nearly-dead neuron fired --- I have seen problems of
this sort arise when someone took a gcc installation generated on
NiftyVendorUnix M.N and copied it verbatim to NiftyVendorUnix M.N+1, or
indeed any release other than M.N. Then you have a situation where gcc is
inserting cleaned-up versions of some system headers but not others (because
it doesn't force the issue when it doesn't have to), and if the vendor did
something like move a typedef from one header to another, you lose, because
the cleaned-up headers are not in sync with the others.

In short ... where'd you get your gcc installation from?

regards, tom lane

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