I have been in communication with postgresql maintainer (Oliver Elphick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>), because it would not build out of the box on a powerpc till version 6.4.2-4. We fixed it and now -5 will build and create most packages but libpgperl. The perl interface is hell to understand. Still, yesterday, I saw full postgresql 6.4.2-4 .debs for powerpc, including libpgperl! Oliver probably doesn't know anything about them, or he could have told me, and save me the effort. The reason I am saying this, is that it would be better to include patches that fix postgresql on the powerpc in the official source dist so that it would build with no effort -even with an autobuilder. As it is now, I know from first hand that 6.4.2-4 will not build without fixes.
So, my request is that the person that uploaded the packages -and I really thank him for fixing the libpgperl- should send the patches to Oliver. That way, maybe the next version (6.4.2-6?) will build out of the box. And out of curiosity, what was the cause of libpgperl's failure? PS. lam package is still in devel. Konstantinos Margaritis [EMAIL PROTECTED]
