Re: Tru64/Alpha problems

Tom Lane wrote:
> Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> writes:
>   
>> Tom Lane wrote:
>>     
>>> I'm not sure that I believe the "getaddrinfo doesn't work" diagnosis
>>> anyway, seeing that bear gets through "make check" okay.  Wouldn't that
>>> fail too if there were a problem there?
>>>       
>
>   
>> Now that I look further into it, this machine was working just fine 
>> until we made a change in configure, allegedly to get things right on 
>> Tru64. The first build that went wrong was the one right after 
>> configure.in version 1.450. I see a report from Albert Chin that this 
>> patch worked, but the buildfarm member seems to provide counter-proof.
>>     
>
> Ugh.  So probably it depends on just which version of Tru64 you're using
> :-(.  Maybe earlier versions of Tru64 have a broken getaddrinfo and it's
> fixed in later ones?  How would we tell the difference?
>   

I have done some more digging on this. The buildfarm member had a couple 
of configuration issues which I have remedied, and which almost 
certainly account for the float test errors we saw. However, we still 
get an error when we try to start the installed s/w with the default 
listen_addresses:
 LOG:  could not translate host name "localhost", service "5832" to address: servname not supported for ai_socktype

Of course, this won't be seen with "make check", since it starts on Unix 
with listen_addresses='', which means we never even look for any sort of 
TCP addrinfo.

I found a hint on the web that we should use -D_SOCKADDR_LEN. I tried 
this, but got a link failure, complaining about revc and send. This man 
page extract explains:
 [Tru64 UNIX]   The recv() function is identical to the recvfrom() function with a zero-valued address_len parameter,
andto the read() function if no flags are used.  For that reason the recv() function is disabled when 4.4BSD behavior
isenabled; that is, when the _SOCKADDR_LEN compile-time option is defined.
 

I'd like to know some settings that we can use that will get Tru64 
cleanly through the buildfarm set. If noone offers any, I propose that 
we revert the getaddrinfo() test in configure and use our own on Tru64 
until they do.

cheers

andrew