Re: [HACKERS] int 8 on FreeBSD

NetBSD is the same way. Any chance of someone coming up with a patch
if int8 isn't supported?

--Michael

Holm Tiffe <holm(at)freibergnet(dot)de> writes:

> Hi all,
>
> While compiling of 6.4.2 I've realized that int8's are not supported
> on FreeBSD by default. The Configure script looks if %ld or %lld
> will do the job but FreeBSD is using %qd as the long long int format.
> After a little fiddeling around with the configure script and
> include/utils/int8.h, I've got the int8 type working.
> Since I've read somtimes in this Mailinglists, that FreeBSD is one
> of the development platforms for PostgreSQL, I wonder why PGSQL
> doesn't support FreeBSD's own format ...
>
> BTW: why the configure script think's that tcl and tk includes
> (tclConfig.sh,tkConfig.sh) must reside in the same directory ?
> That's really an odd assumtion.
>
>
> Holm
>
> PS:
> sorry for my poor english.
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