Re: Call for platform testing

Tom Lane wrote:

> Luis Amigo <lamigo(at)atc(dot)unican(dot)es> writes:
> > uname -m returns IP25 what is SGI platform, it's about cache sizes and
> > internal net issues, I'm not sure that would work, I think it's more
> > reliable to do:
> > congrio 39% hinv -t cpu
> > congrio 40% hinv -t fpu
>
> I'm not eager to add such a platform-dependent test to the resultmap
> code, especially not when the issue is just the geometry results; we
> already know that the long-term answer there must be to display fewer
> digits in the test output. Also, we don't know what this program will
> report for older MIPS boxes anyway. (Pete Forman hasn't responded to my
> ping, so I'm inclined to assume that he's not actively tracking Postgres
> development anymore; we can't expect help from him to check it on the
> older boxes.)
>
> I'd be willing to just commit the newer-hardware IRIX results as
> geometry-irix for 7.2. Somebody's got to put up with a discrepancy,
> and it may as well be the older boxes.
>
> Comments?
>
> regards, tom lane

I'm completely with you, I don´t think that would be useful to mantain such
firmware dependecies, but I think that it might be useful to document this
and problems with gcc, now we all remember this issue, but in two months
all will be forgotten.
We had here a lot of trouble installing our first 7.1.3 postgres because it
wasn´t documented that gcc simply doesn´t run. I swear that when I had time
I will try to compile with gcc and new libgcc links to try to fix this
problem.