Subject: Re: Alpha assembly question...
To: Todd Vierling <tv@pobox.com>
From: Kevin P. Neal <kpneal@pobox.com>
List: port-alpha
Date: 02/17/2000 13:10:24
On Thu, Feb 17, 2000 at 12:49:15PM -0500, Todd Vierling wrote:
> On Thu, 17 Feb 2000, Kevin P. Neal wrote:
> 
> : > No, it does not.  Search AltaVista for "+alpha +linux +postgresql"--it's
> : > littered with LP64 breakage.
> : 
> : Well, I got farther. Can someone explain this to me? I can't figure out
> : why it breaks like this. I found that if I make tas() not be __inline__
> : then I can get Postgres to work well enough to build it's own
> : databases and then finish installing. (I'll have a set of patches
> : ready hopefully tonight -- perhaps Postgres won't be perfect but it'll
> : be closer.)
> 
> These fixes have probably already been done for the half-working Alpha Linux
> port:

I'm pretty sure my patch to include/port/bsd.h isn't in the Linux patchset.
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