Am Montag, 30. Mai 2005 20:11 schrieb Tom Lane: > Peter Eisentraut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > The problem is that the program zic in src/timezone/ is built and run > > during the build process, which doesn't work if it's compiled by a > > cross-compiler. > > Why don't we instead arrange to run it during install?
It does currently run during the install. How does that help? > I'm not real thrilled with the notion of trying to use a zic built by a > different compiler; I think that will lead to all sorts of problems, > considering that the files it's meant to write are binary and > at least potentially architecture-specific. Also there's the problem > that it is reading a pg_config.h that is definitely platform-specific. Well, that is true. Bummer. > BTW, the truth of the matter is that we've never supported > cross-compilation; see all the AC_TRY_RUN operations in configure. They all have (or should have) fall-back values for cross-compilation. Else, those who complain about zic would have never gotten there. -- Peter Eisentraut http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/ ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org
