Re: CVS -Tip compile issue -- FreeBSD 4.8

Sean Chittenden <sean@chittenden.org> writes:
> Tom, you said you needed a shell way of detecting this, does the
> following work?

No, I need something that will work in the regression test resultmap,
which basically only knows about the platform identifier string
computed by config.guess.

We could changefloat8/i.86-.*-freebsd=float8-small-is-zero
tofloat8/i.86-.*-freebsd4=float8-small-is-zero
which would result in the right behavior on freebsd 4.*, and would
expect 5.* to have standard float behavior.

That would mean that on 5.* you would get diffs if you didn't have the
new float handling.  What is the status of the 5.* branch --- are there
stable releases out there that don't have the new float code?  If not,
this seems like an acceptable answer.
        regards, tom lane