On Wed, 26 May 1999, Henry B. Hotz wrote:

> At 11:18 AM -0700 5/25/99, Bill Studenmund wrote:
> >On Tue, 25 May 1999, Sergey Ivanov wrote:
> >
> >> I tried install it from NetBSD package collection and failed. Will
> >> anybody help me?
> 
> My guess is that it failed because the package collection hasn't yet been
> updated with the m68k patches.  Postgres reportedly works fine on the x86
> and SPARC NetBSD ports.  The patches will be included in the (real soon
> now) 6.5 release.  In the mean time you can get the 6.4.2 release and apply
> the patches, and then follow the Postgres install instructions.  The
> install document is pretty comprehensive so you would want to use it even
> if the package collection worked, I think.

The current postgress package includes some m68k patches, and the
NOT_FOR_ARCH variable no longer includes m68k. In fact, patch-ab includes
a tas_dummy() routine in m68k assembly.

??

Take care,

Bill