On Jul 23, 2004, at 12:54 PM, Andy Ruhl wrote:

> o postgresql from pkgsrc won't compile due to some CPU limitation. I
> set an configure option to disable spinlocks, and it would finish
> building without errors, but it would not actually build the
> postmaster executable. Weird. Seems like 2 problems: 1. It won't build
> right. 2. The package build should fail. I compiled it from source,
> but it complains when I try to do an initdb. MySQL built just fine but
> I didn't try to use it. But I REALLY don't want to use MySQL.

See

<http://www.netbsd.org/cgi-bin/query-pr-single.pl?number=25473>

I have been running postgres with these changes for months.  It even 
passes most of the tests.

Byron