Re: Is anyone interested in getting PostgreSQL working on mips[el]?

Martin,

I have installed the Sarge binutils on my "testing/Etch" system and all of the Postgresql regression test pass.  I 
don't know where to go from here, any suggestions?

Jim


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From: Martin Pitt <mpitt@debian.org>
To: Jim Buttafuoco <jim@contactbda.com>
Sent: Mon, 9 Jan 2006 16:10:18 +0100
Subject: Re: Is anyone interested in getting PostgreSQL working on mips[el]?

> Hi Jim!
> 
> Jim Buttafuoco [2006-01-09  8:44 -0500]:
> > Martin,
> > 
> > While my build farm mipsel system (corgi) get the sigbus as reported
> > below, lionfish does not.  see
> > http://www.pgbuildfarm.org/cgi-bin/show_log.pl?nm=lionfish&dt=2006-01-08%2016:51:36
> 
> This looks indeed fine. What's the difference between these two?
> 
> > that I have.  So it must be in the software.  What do you think is
> > the best way to tell?  I believe my raq is up to date as far as
> > debian packages for sarge.
> 
> I can't test this on sarge/mips myself. I have a sid dchroot on a box
> from Florian Lohoff, that's all.
> 
> Indeed it could very well be that Debian's sarge packages worked fine
> on mips and that this whole story turns out to be a gcc or libc bug in
> sid, I don't know. Maybe you could do the test with identical
> compiler/postgresql versions and identical  postgresql
> patches/configure options once on sarge and once on sid?
> 
> Thanks a lot for looking into this issue!
> 
> Martin
> 
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