Re: [PORTS] Port Bug Report: buf_init.c does not compile (spin lock problem?)

On Thu, 17 Jun 1999, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:

>On Thursday 17 June 1999, at 18 h 38, the keyboard of "Pedro J. Lobo"
><pjlobo@euitt.upm.es> wrote:
>
>> I have tested it with DEC C and works right out of the box. I have tried
>> gcc 2.7.2 in the past, and have never been able to build postgres with it.
>> gcc 2.8 doesn't work either, and now it seems that egcs behaves the same.
>
>Thanks, but after 'make distclean' and a new configure, it doesn't work better
>with Digital/Compaq's cc:
>
>make -C port all
>make[2]: Entering directory `/home/bortz/tmp/postgresql-6.5/src/backend/port'
>...
>cc -I../../include -I../../backend   -DNOFIXADE -I..   -c isinf.c -o isinf.o
>cc -I../../include -I../../backend   -DNOFIXADE -I..   -c snprintf.c -o
                                    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^

These flags correspond to the template 'alpha_gcc', not to 'alpha_cc',
which is the one that should be used with DEC C. The problem you are
seeing comes from a missing flag (-std). Make sure that you give the
option "--with-CC=cc' to configure, and if you don't see this line:

checking setting template to... alpha_cc

(that is, if it says 'alpha_gcc' instead) then re-run configure with the
option "--with-template=alpha_cc". I didn't have to specify that, but...
Also, it wouldn't hurt if you remove the whole source tree and extract it
again from the tarball, just in case. The 'make distclean' should have the
same effect, but it seems it didn't.

Cheers,

    Pedro.

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