IRIX Specific
TO BE READ IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE NORMAL FAQ
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-last updated: $Date: 2001/12/03 19:33:35 $
+last updated: $Date: 2001/12/19 18:50:48 $
current maintainer: Luis Amigo (lamigo@atc.unican.es)
original author: Luis Amigo (lamigo@atc.unican.es)
MIPSPro compilers version 7.30, 7.3.1.2m and 7.3.
Aside from the PostgreSQL source distribution, you will need GNU make
-(SGI's make will not do), and MIPSPro full ANSI C compiler.
+(SGI's make will not do), and the MIPSPro full ANSI C compiler.
-Until now there are problems trying to install with GNU's gcc, it is a known
-gcc bug (not fixed at current date, version 3.0) using functions that return
-some kind of structures. This bug affects functions like inet_ntoa,
-inet_lnaof, inet_netof, inet_makeaddr and semctl. It is supposed to be fixed
-by forcing code to link those functions with libgcc, but this has not been
-tested yet.
+There are problems trying to build with GCC. It is a known gcc bug
+(not fixed as of version 3.0) related to using functions that return
+certain kinds of structures. This bug affects functions like
+inet_ntoa, inet_lnaof, inet_netof, inet_makeaddr and semctl. It is
+supposed to be fixed by forcing code to link those functions with
+libgcc, but this has not been tested yet.
1.2) Anything special about the build/install procedure?
-In order to compile with cc you will need to:
+In order to compile with cc you will need to execute:
-configure with-CC=cc
+CC=cc ./configure
-Or you may edit postgres.../src/templates/irix5
+You may want to edit src/templates/irix5 to include something like:
-including something like:
-
-CC=cc
CFLAGS='-O2'
LDFLAGS='-O2'
-It is a good place to improve performance on postgresql, because here you
+It is a good place to improve performance of PostgreSQK, because here you
may use all MIPSPro power generating specific objects, see man cc.
-Other known problem is include location, it may be different from some
-compiler installations to others, if you are getting something like:
+Another known problem is include location, it may be different from some
+compiler installations to others. This may manifest itself with something like:
cc-1020 cc: ERROR File = pqcomm.c, Line = 427
The identifier "TCP_NODELAY" is undefined.
if (setsockopt(port->sock, IPPROTO_TCP, TCP_NODELAY,
Some versions include TCP definitions in <sys/xti.h>, so it is necessary to
-add #include <sys/xti.h> in /src/backend/libpq/pqcomm.c and in
-src/interfaces/libpq/fe-connect.c
+add #include <sys/xti.h> in src/backend/libpq/pqcomm.c and in
+src/interfaces/libpq/fe-connect.c.
1.3) OK, it seemed to build and install, but the regression test fails.