Re: Compiling PostgreSQL 8.1.5 with 64-bit on a G5 SOLVED

[Brian Wipf <brian(at)clickspace(dot)com>]

Thanks for your help, Tom!

I applied that patch to s_lock.h in our PostgreSQL 8.1.5 source, and  
the 64-bit compile went through without a hitch.

On 27-Nov-06, at 5:48 PM, Tom Lane wrote:

> Brian Wipf <brian(at)clickspace(dot)com> writes:
> > Removing -mcpu=970 got rid of the #define bool bool, among other
> > things, which allowed the configure to go through without modifying
> > any code. The make still fails with what looks like identical errors.
>
> > ../../../../src/include/storage/s_lock.h:806:2: error: #error
> > PostgreSQL does not have native spinlock support on this platform. To
> > continue the compilation, rerun configure using --disable-spinlocks.
> > However, performance will be poor. Please report this to pgsql-
> > bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org(dot)
>
> Ah.  For that you need this patch:
> http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-committers/2006-04/msg00217.php
> which is in HEAD (8.2) but not any older branch.
>
> 			regards, tom lane
>
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