Re: [HACKERS] Re: UnixWare

On Thu, 17 Jun 1999, Billy G. Allie wrote:

Billy,

I have such a box (running 2.1.2 and pg 6.3.2) and linked no problem (see
earlier post) by telling the linker to use /usr/ucblib.

Thomas Lockhart would like me to document this along with Dmitri S and
Andrew...but I am underqualifed (generally ;-)

Care to assist?

Cheers,
Tom Good

> Under UnixWare 2.x, alloca is in the UCB library (libucb.a ?). The easist way
> to link in alloca is to extract it from libucb.a and either link in the
> alloca.o file or put it into the libgen.a library and the link in via -lgen.
> Why now just link in lubucb.a you ask? The are routines in libucb.a that you
> do not want to get linked into the object in place of the regular routines
> with the same name. I have ran my UnixWare 2.x system (when I had it) with
> alloca in libgen.a with out any problems.
>
> This was the setup I used to compile Postgres 6.3.x when I had UnixWare 2.x.
> [Hmmm.... It looks like I should put together a 486 box to run Unixware 2.x
> on so that I can test new versions of PostgreSQL on it].
>
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