PostgreSQL-6.4 on Alpha

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                        POSTGRESQL BUG REPORT TEMPLATE
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Your name               :David Westhead
Your email address      :westhead@bmb.leeds.ac.uk


System Configuration
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  Architecture (example: Intel Pentium)         :   DEC Alpha

  Operating System (example: Linux 2.0.26 ELF)  :   Digital Unix V4.0

  PostgreSQL version (example: PostgreSQL-6.4)  :   PostgreSQL-6.4

  Compiler used (example:  gcc 2.8.0)           :   gcc 2.8.1


Please enter a FULL description of your problem:
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Postgres failed to compile, here is the error


gcc -I../../include -I../../backend   -DNOFIXADE  -Wall
-Wmissing-prototypes -I..   -c snprintf.c -o snprintf.o
snprintf.c: In function `vsnprintf':
snprintf.c:116: warning: type mismatch in implicit declaration for
built-in function `strlen'
snprintf.c: In function `fmtnum':
snprintf.c:357: argument `value' doesn't match prototype
snprintf.c:124: prototype declaration
make[2]: *** [snprintf.o] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory
`/usr/src/pgsql/postgresql-v6.4/src/backend/port'
make[1]: *** [port.dir] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/pgsql/postgresql-v6.4/src/backend'
make: *** [all] Error 2


Please describe a way to repeat the problem.   Please try to provide a
concise reproducible example, if at all possible:
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Just try to compile with version of 2.8.1. of gcc.  NB. I've tried with
the native cc instead of gcc and again the code fails to compile, but
for a DIFFERENT reason.  I'm going to try to solve the problem above.



If you know how this problem might be fixed, list the solution below:
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Dr. David R. Westhead, Lecturer in Bioinformatics
School of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology,
University of Leeds, Leeds, Yorkshire, LS2 9JT, UK
E-mail: westhead@bmb.leeds.ac.uk Tel: 44 (0)113 233 3116