Re: Warp

Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> > Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> >> Eric Caloone wrote:
> >>> It runs on OS/2 Warp 4 too (Postgres V8 RC3).
> >>
> >> That is pretty hard to believe, since the code we distribute contains
> >> neither shared library support nor spinlock support nor any of the
> >> other port specific tweaks for OS/2.  And someone else is currently
> >> working on porting to OS/2.  What's up with that?
>
> > Someone posted an 8.0rc4 binary and it is mentioned in the current FAQ,
> > so yea, I think it works.
>
> Posting a binary doesn't mean that they didn't have to hack the source.
>
> As of 8.0 the spinlock support should be driven by CPU type not OS type,
> so as long as you build using a compiler that defines standard CPU
> symbols it should work.  In particular I'd expect a gcc build on OS/2 to
> not have any issues about spinlocks.
>
> Shared libraries are another story --- there is no way we'd build shared
> libraries successfully without a Makefile.os2 and some additions to
> Makefile.shlib.  Given the importance of plpgsql I don't think we could
> consider a build with --disable-shared to be a "supported platform".

I assume OS/2 is like our Novell port in that it doesn't compile using
our CVS source but only with modified source.

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