Re: installing 7.2b3 on IRIX 6.5.13

Tom Lane wrote:

> Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> writes:
> > One of these days I'm going to write this down somewhere:  GCC + Irix +
> > PostgreSQL does not work -- until proven otherwise and/or GCC is fixed.
>
> Oh.  Yup, that should be documented or enforced by configure.
>
> > I was going to suggest myself someday that we force CC=cc, but it should
> > be done in configure.in (near line 274) and not in the template file.
>
> Makes sense to me to do it in configure.in.  Shall we go ahead and put
> that in?
>
> > We've had successful reports for Irix in the past, so I don't think the -n
> > and -r flags are strictly necessary -- at least I'd like to see more
> > information regarding them.  What makes -n32 and -r12000 better than, say,
> > -n64 and -r6000?
>
> Luis' followup indicated that -r wasn't really needed.  Not sure about -n.
>
>                         regards, tom lane

I forgot to say but sure you know that inet_ntoa is widely used but only
critical is:
./postmaster/postmaster.c:2036:         host_addr =
inet_ntoa(port->raddr.in.sin_addr);
sorry for repeating
regards