> > > Bruce,
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Dead sure. It took me some time to locate the offending line. I
> > > initially thought it was a shell expansion problem.
> >
> > Yikes. Is this the expected behavour? Does anyone else see this?
> >
> > >
> > > The platform is RedHat linux 6.0 with egcs-2.91.66.
> > > [me@linny2 src]# ./configure
> > > creating cache ./config.cache
> > > checking host system type... alpha-unknown-linux-gnu
> ...
> > > checking whether the C compiler (gcc -O -mieee # optimization -O2
> > > removed becau
> > > se of egcs problem ) works... no
> > > configure: error: installation or configuration problem: C compiler
> > > cannot creat
> > > e executables.
> > >
> > >
> > > Peter
> > >
> > > Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > > >
>
> The same sort of thing happens with OSF1 unless you specify
>
> ./configure --with-template=alpha_gcc
>
> There are comments in the documentation that a few changes are needed
> but I have not found what they were/are. For grins I installed egcs as
> gcc and I still get this during the make so those "changes" for OSF1
> would be nice. Else I get to puzzle out what's happening. Does anybody
> have DEC OSF working with postgress?? :-)
>
OK, I have removed the comment after the optimization flag. In fact,
the comment is not needed now that we have alpha-specific flags for
certain Makefiles.
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