Re: [PORTS] Compiling PostgreSQL 8.1.5 with 64-bit on a G5

Tom Lane <[email protected]> Mon, 27 Nov 2006 19:48:22 -0500

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.db.postgresql.ports
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Brian Wipf <[email protected]> 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- 
> [email protected].

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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