Re: [HACKERS] V8.0rc1 On AIX.

2004-12-17 Thread Christopher Browne
Centuries ago, Nostradamus foresaw when [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Travis P) would write: > Now, on my AIX 5.1 system, /usr/bin/ cc and cc_r are both just > symlinks back to /usr/vac/bin/xlc. The different program names just > invoke the different settings. Brad: can you make such a symlink and > compi

Re: [HACKERS] V8.0rc1 On AIX.

2004-12-17 Thread Christopher Browne
That would require that xlc be installed. Neither cc, cc_r, xlc, nor xlcc (or maybe it was xlcpp?) are available on the systems Brad and I are using, so that symlink will not work. As a result, _none_ of these may be remotely considered to be "universal answers" on AIX. In effect, there are two

Re: [HACKERS] V8.0rc1 On AIX.

2004-12-14 Thread Bruce Momjian
That's a good point. Should we just use cc_r for all thread compiles on AIX if they are using cc and not gcc? I am not ready to have the backend compiled with cc_r at this stage so I think this level of support has to wait until 8.1. -

Re: [HACKERS] V8.0rc1 On AIX.

2004-12-14 Thread Travis P
On Dec 14, 2004, at 12:51 PM, Bruce Momjian wrote: Peter Eisentraut wrote: Bruce Momjian wrote: Huh, isn't this port testing? Do we not want to fix port bugs at this stage? We are not really fixing anything, because it was never expected to work before. We are adding new functionality. It is, o

Re: [HACKERS] V8.0rc1 On AIX.

2004-12-14 Thread Bruce Momjian
Peter Eisentraut wrote: > Bruce Momjian wrote: > > Huh, isn't this port testing? Do we not want to fix port bugs at > > this stage? > > We are not really fixing anything, because it was never expected to work > before. We are adding new functionality. It is, of course, a > borderline case. B

Re: [HACKERS] V8.0rc1 On AIX.

2004-12-14 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Bruce Momjian wrote: > Huh, isn't this port testing? Do we not want to fix port bugs at > this stage? We are not really fixing anything, because it was never expected to work before. We are adding new functionality. It is, of course, a borderline case. But for example, do we have any informa

Re: [HACKERS] V8.0rc1 On AIX.

2004-12-14 Thread Bruce Momjian
Peter Eisentraut wrote: > Am Dienstag, 14. Dezember 2004 16:51 schrieb Brad Nicholson: > > AIX 5.1 > > > > I applied Bruce's patch, configured with --enable-thread-safety and > > everything went smoothly. > > Nonetheless, threading support on AIX being a new feature, I don't think this > should g

Re: [HACKERS] V8.0rc1 On AIX.

2004-12-13 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Am Dienstag, 14. Dezember 2004 16:51 schrieb Brad Nicholson: > AIX 5.1 > > I applied Bruce's patch, configured with --enable-thread-safety and > everything went smoothly. Nonetheless, threading support on AIX being a new feature, I don't think this should go into 8.0.0. -- Peter Eisentraut http