Re: [PORTS] QNX4 port

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> Bruce Momjian wrote:
> >Applied.  I have changed @if to -@if and removed the QNX-specific code.
> >This should allow QNX to compile in the current source tree.
>
>
> Thanks, but there are still some little problems remaining:
>
> 1. template/qnx must be renamed to template/QNX. Otherwise configure will
> not find it. At the beginning I wanted to name it qnx4. But this would
> require one more patch of configure because of QNX problems.

I want it to be lowercase.  All the other OS's are lowercase.  How do
they do it.  I recommend a change to template/.similar so QNX is
automatically identified on startup.


>
> 2. backend/port/qnx must be renamed to backend/port/qnx4. Otherwise gmake
> fails.
> It makes sense to name it qnx4 because there are two main versions of QNX in
> use, QNX2 and QNX4. QNX2 is not compatible at all. QNX4 claims POSIX
> compatibility. This port works for QNX4 only.

Done.

>
> 3. Since configure is part of the source tree it probably should be patched
> too (not only configure.in).

Done.  Forgot.

>
> 4. Unfortunately backend/bootstrap/Makefile must be a little more
> complicated (new version in patch).

Done.

>
> 5. In regress.sh the line
> echo "diff ${DIFFOPT} -C3 ..."
> can be removed (new version in patch).

Done.

>
> 6. Before "gmake install" the directory /usr/local/pgsql[/lib] must be
> created manually because
> mkdir /usr/local/pgsql/lib fails if /usr/local/pgsql does not exist yet.
> This is obviously a general problem. "mkdir -p"?

Not sure.

>
> An updated version of README.qnx4 is in the patch too. PATCH.qnx4 is for a
> problem in a g++ header.

I put the patch at the end of the readme.


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