Re: BUG #2401: spinlocks not available on amd64

Theo Schlossnagle wrote:
>
> The following bug has been logged online:
>
> Bug reference:      2401
> Logged by:          Theo Schlossnagle
> Email address:      jesus@omniti.com
> PostgreSQL version: 8.1.3
> Operating system:   Solaris 10
> Description:        spinlocks not available on amd64
> Details:
>
> Compiling 8.1.3 on solaris 10 x86 with Sun Studio 11 for amd64 target
> architecture leads us to an error resulting from no available "tas"
> assembly.
>
> The tas.s file doesn't look like valid assembly for the shipped Sun
> assembler.

Yes.  We will have a fix for it in 8.2, but it was too risky for 8.1.X.
You can try a snapshot tarball from our FTP server and see if that works.

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