postgesql-9.0.4 compile on AIX 6.1 using gcc 4.4.6

Started by Weiss, Wilfriedover 14 years ago3 messages
#1Weiss, Wilfried
Wilfried.Weiss@nsg.com

Hello,

I am just trying to compile postgresql-9.0.4 on AIX 6100-06-03-1048
using gcc 4.4.6.

Since many years I did this successfully on other versions of AIX using
xlc. However my version 9 of xlc is no longer running on AIX 6.1 and no
one is willing to sponsor a new version of xlc. So I started trying to
compile postgresql with gcc 4.4.6.

The installation of gcc was a nightmare. There were unresolved
dependencies that needed to be ignored with parameter nodeps when
installing by rpm!?

Unfortunately that was not all.

There was also:

"[Bug target/46072] AIX linker chokes on debug info for uninitialized
static variables"

This is an IBM bug in AIX's assembler (as) which causes corrupt object
code that is crashing when trying to execute it.

As far as I know IBM still not delived a fix for this. It seems that
they are not interested in this as IBM's xlc is not using the assembler
to create object code.

Does any one know whether there is an alternate way to compile
postgresql on AIX 6.1 using gcc???

I appreciate even the smallest hint!

Regards

WW

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#2Albe Laurenz
laurenz.albe@wien.gv.at
In reply to: Weiss, Wilfried (#1)
Re: postgesql-9.0.4 compile on AIX 6.1 using gcc 4.4.6

Wilfried Weiss wrote:

I am just trying to compile postgresql-9.0.4 on AIX 6100-06-03-1048

using gcc 4.4.6.

There was also:

"[Bug target/46072] AIX linker chokes on debug info for uninitialized

static variables"

Does any one know whether there is an alternate way to compile

postgresql on AIX 6.1 using gcc???

I appreciate even the smallest hint!

I don't have any AIX boxes to play with any more, I guess
(after reading the bug description) that it should work if
you compile without generating debug info (-g).

Yours,
Laurenz Albe

#3Steve Singer
ssinger@ca.afilias.info
In reply to: Weiss, Wilfried (#1)
Re: postgesql-9.0.4 compile on AIX 6.1 using gcc 4.4.6

On 11-08-30 07:58 AM, Weiss, Wilfried wrote:

Hello,

I am just trying to compile postgresql-9.0.4 on AIX 6100-06-03-1048
using gcc 4.4.6.

Unfortunately that was not all.

There was also:

"[Bug target/46072] AIX linker chokes on debug info for uninitialized
static variables"

This is an IBM bug in AIX's assembler (as) which causes corrupt object
code that is crashing when trying to execute it.

As far as I know IBM still not delived a fix for this. It seems that
they are not interested in this as IBM's xlc is not using the
assembler to create object code.

Does any one know whether there is an alternate way to compile
postgresql on AIX 6.1 using gcc???

I appreciate even the smallest hint!

I have compiled 9.0.4 on AIX 5.3 with GCC 4.1.1 without any issues.
(well the regression tests hit an issue on REL9_0_STABLE builds that
they don't hit with more recent branches but that is due to a makefile
related issue that I should post about in a different thread.

The buildfarm member grebe
(http://buildfarm.postgresql.org/cgi-bin/show_history.pl?nm=grebe&br=HEAD)
does this.

I do not have access to a AIX 6.1 machine

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Regards

WW

http://www.pilkington.com/nsg/disclaimer.htm