Re: PostgreSQL for VAX on NetBSD/OpenBSD

["Sebastian Reitenbach" <sebastia%l00-bugdead-prods.de@localhost>]

On Tuesday, June 24, 2014 13:37 CEST, "Sebastian Reitenbach" 
<sebastia%l00-bugdead-prods.de@localhost> wrote:

> On Tuesday, June 24, 2014 03:12 CEST, Robert Haas 
> <robertmhaas%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:
>
> > On Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 6:58 PM, Greg Stark <stark%mit.edu@localhost> wrote:
> > > On Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 3:09 PM, Robert Haas 
> > > <robertmhaas%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:
> > >> However, we don't know of anyone who has tried to do this in a very
> > >> long time, and are therefore considering removing the remaining
> > >> support for the VAX platform.  Has anyone tried to build PostgreSQL
> > >> for VAX lately?
> > >
> > > Actually I tried a while ago but got stuck configuring the network on
> > > simh so I could get all the tools. I can try again if there's interest
> > > but we don't necessarily need to keep a port just because there's a
> > > simulator for it.
> >
> > That's really up to you.  I'm not particularly interested in
> > generating interest in maintaining this port if there wouldn't
> > otherwise be any; I'm trying to figure out whether there is existing
> > interest in it.  For all I know, <whatever>BSD is shipping PostgreSQL
> > binaries for VAX and every other platform they support in each new
> > release and people are using them to get real work done.  Then again,
> > for all I know, it doesn't even compile on that platform, and if you
> > did manage to get it to compile it wouldn't fit on the disk, and if
> > you managed to fit it on the disk it wouldn't work because key system
> > calls aren't supported.  If someone is still interested in this, I'm
> > hoping they'll help us figure out whether it's anywhere close to
> > working, and maybe even contribute a buildfarm critter.  If no one
> > cares, then let's just rip it out and be done with it.
> >
>
> I'm building the vax packages for openbsd. What I can tell is that
> for 5.5 no postgresql packages were built. But that may be that
> due to the recent upgrade from gcc 2.95 to 3.3.
> I guess that not all dependencies to actually build postgresql
> are available for the vax, or may build successfully there. But I need
> to verify. Might need a few days, since I'm currently on vacation,
> with sparse Internet connectivity. ;)

OK, that was easy:

$ cd /usr/ports/databases/postgresql                                   
$ make install
===>  postgresql-client-9.3.4p0  requires shared libraries .

OpenBSD VAX is static only, so no postgresql on OpenBSD
VAX before shared libraries will ever be made working on it.

cheers,
Sebastian


>
> Sebastian
>
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