Re: Compile Error - Spinlock support

Assuming you are running on MSys.

Please run "config.status check_win32_symlinks" and check that all the 
symlinks are correct - I seem to recall seeing this when links failed, 
as they are known to do from time to time.

cheers

andrew

Nate Plumm wrote:

>Greetings,
>
>I am trying to compile a snapshot (2004-09-05 I believe) on Windows XP. I
>get the error below about spinlock support. I ran ./configure --without-zlib
>and then make. Thank you all for your time!
>
>gcc -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes
>-Wmissing-declarations -I../../../../src/include -I./src/include/port/win32
>"-I../../../../src/include/port/win32" -DBUILDING_DLL  -c -o rtscan.o
>rtscan.c
>gcc -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes
>-Wmissing-declarations -I../../../../src/include -I./src/include/port/win32
>"-I../../../../src/include/port/win32" -DBUILDING_DLL  -c -o rtstrat.o
>rtstrat.c
>c:/MinGw/mingw32/bin/ld.exe -r -o SUBSYS.o rtget.o rtproc.o rtree.o rtscan.o
>rtstrat.o
>make[4]: Leaving directory `/postgresql-snapshot/src/backend/access/rtree'
>make -C transam SUBSYS.o
>make[4]: Entering directory
>`/postgresql-snapshot/src/backend/access/transam'
>gcc -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes
>-Wmissing-declarations -I../../../../src/include -I./src/include/port/win32
>"-I../../../../src/include/port/win32" -DBUILDING_DLL  -c -o clog.o clog.c
>gcc -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes
>-Wmissing-declarations -I../../../../src/include -I./src/include/port/win32
>"-I../../../../src/include/port/win32" -DBUILDING_DLL  -c -o transam.o
>transam.c
>gcc -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes
>-Wmissing-declarations -I../../../../src/include -I./src/include/port/win32
>"-I../../../../src/include/port/win32" -DBUILDING_DLL  -c -o varsup.o
>varsup.c
>gcc -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes
>-Wmissing-declarations -I../../../../src/include -I./src/include/port/win32
>"-I../../../../src/include/port/win32" -DBUILDING_DLL  -c -o xact.o xact.c
>gcc -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes
>-Wmissing-declarations -I../../../../src/include -I./src/include/port/win32
>"-I../../../../src/include/port/win32" -DBUILDING_DLL  -c -o xlog.o xlog.c
>In file included from ../../../../src/include/storage/spin.h:50,
>                 from xlog.c:35:
>../../../../src/include/storage/s_lock.h:543:2: #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 [email protected].
>make[4]: *** [xlog.o] Error 1
>make[4]: Leaving directory `/postgresql-snapshot/src/backend/access/transam'
>make[3]: *** [transam-recursive] Error 2
>make[3]: Leaving directory `/postgresql-snapshot/src/backend/access'
>make[2]: *** [access-recursive] Error 2
>make[2]: Leaving directory `/postgresql-snapshot/src/backend'
>make[1]: *** [all] Error 2
>make[1]: Leaving directory `/postgresql-snapshot/src'
>make: *** [all] Error 2
>
>----------------------------
>Nate Plumm
>plummn _at_ comdel d0t net
>
>
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