Re: [PORTS] RedHat6.0 & Alpha

Ok,
    I would have liked to have seen the fix to typedef time_t AbsoluteTime in
nabstime.h, rather than this, but i guess its some movement :-/

As per ur request, I am sending u ( bruce) my changed *.[ch] files from the
July 20 source ( they are not diffs ) . All the regressions tests work except
for geometry ( precision ? ) and Rules ( of which i will follow up (later)
with a question.

    I u folks got any questions please let me know, As i'm sure that you will
have some.

Regarding the Test&set problems, u have to compile spin.c with -fno-inline.
i'd give u a makefile but i'm not sure how u folks are handling the
    ifeq ($(OS), linux )
    ifeq ($(CPU), alpha )
        spin.o:    spin.c
            $(CC) $(CFLAGS) -c -fno-inline spin.c -o spin.o
    endif
    endif

    I'm using -O3, and seems happy
gat

Bruce Momjian wrote:

> > > I imagine that this flag is specific to the compiler. It would
> > >
> > OK, I have made it:
> >
> >       ifeq ($(CPU),alpha)
> >       ifeq ($(CC), gcc)
> >       CFLAGS+= -mieee
> >       endif
> >       ifeq ($(CC), egcs)
> >       CFLAGS+= -mieee
> >       endif
> >       endif
> >
> > I can always rip it out later.
>
> Let me reiterate Thomas's comments on this.  Alpha has been a very
> bad port for us.  I realize the problems are complex, but each alpha
> person seems to know only 80% of what we need to get things working
> 100%.   We get partial solutions to small problems, that just seem to