Re: [PORTS] Anyone working on linux Alpha?

 diff -ruN pgsql/src/template/linux_alpha postgresql-patched/src/template/linux_alpha
> --- pgsql/src/template/linux_alpha    Tue Jun 16 06:04:00 1998
> +++ postgresql-patched/src/template/linux_alpha    Tue Jun  8 17:21:32 1999
> @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
>  AROPT:crs
> -CFLAGS:-O2 -mieee
> +CFLAGS:-mieee
>  SHARED_LIB:-fpic
>  ALL:
>  SRCH_INC:
>


> ======================================================================
>
> This is required because of problems with egcs:
>
> >> Is this patch suitable for forwarding upstream?  Do all linux Alphas
> >> have to disable -O2?
> >
> > Yes.  At least all that use egcs as a primary compiler (gcc 2.7.x never
> > worked for us, so unless they're using gcc 2.8.x, it won't work with -O2).
>
> ...and...
>
> > The patch I mailed you DEFINITELY needs to be included upstream if
> > possible.  All Alphas running linux and using egcs REQUIRE it to be
> > compiled without optimisation since it hoses the spinlock code (I'm
> > looking into it with the guy that wrote the spinlock code for Alphas).
> > And the alphapca56,7 machines are fairly common now.  Mention to them that
> > it might be helpful to use a config.sub from a more recent autoconf or
> > libtool since it includes another two or three new Alpha types (at least
> > the Debian sources do...I make sure of that :-)


I have just removed optimization on linux/alpha for this reason.  Can I
use -O optimization on this platform instead of -O2?


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