I don't know about this specific problem, but GNU has an alloca
implementation that is portable enough to run on any platform (through
clever trickery). So that should be solvable.
Andrew Merrill wrote:
>
> It looks like you are using SCO UnixWare 2.1.2. PostgreSQL 6.4.X and 6.5.X do
> compile and run on SCO UnixWare 7, the current version.
>
> I have not been able to compile PostgreSQL 6.5 (or any other version) on
> UnixWare 2. The main problem seems to be that PostgreSQL uses alloca,
> and I can't find the alloca.h header on my UnixWare 2 system.
>
> SCO has released a newer compiler, often called the Universal Development
> Kit (UDK) which will run on UnixWare 7, UnixWare 2, and OpenServer 5, and
> which will produce a single binary for all three platforms. PostgreSQL 6.5
> will compile on both UnixWare 7 and OpenServer 5 using SCO's UDK compiler,
> so I assume it would compile on UnixWare 2 using it as well. However,
> I don't have a UnixWare 2 system with the UDK installed to test this.
>
> I hope this is helpful.
>
> Andrew Merrill
> The Computer Classroom, Inc., a SCO Authorized Education Center
>
> > Does anybody use postgres on this animal?
> >
> > UNIX_SV its-sp 4.2MP 2.1.2 i386 x86at SCO UNIX_SVR4
> > UX:cc: INFO: Optimizing C Compilation System (CCS) 3.0 09/26/96 (u211mr1)
> > Postgres 6.5 current CVS
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