Re: PostgreSQL v7.4 Release Candidate 1 compile errors

Martin Marques writes:

> I tried compuiling RC1 and got this on make:
>
> make[4]: Entering directory
> `/space/home/martin/basura/postgresql-7.4RC1/src/backend/access/common'
> /usr/bin/ld -r -o SUBSYS.o heaptuple.o indextuple.o indexvalid.o printtup.o
> scankey.o tupdesc.o
> /usr/bin/ld: Relocatable linking with relocations from format elf64-sparc
> (heaptuple.o) to format elf32-sparc (SUBSYS.o) is not supported
> make[4]: *** [SUBSYS.o] Error 1
>
> Looks like I'm missing something in my instalation, but couldn't find out what
> it was. Any ideas those of you working on 64 bit?

That's the same result I had. The machine doesn't have a 64-bit userland
and compiler tools. You need to run

sparc32 ./configure
sparc32 make
sparc32 make all

At least on Debian. I don't think we're in a position to support 64-bit
Sparcs on Linux at this point.

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