Re: [GENERAL] Alpha FreeBSD

Nathan wrote:
> Ok as far as the 6.5.3  from the FreeBSD ports dir,  just says "alpha port
> is broken " and thats it (It tests to see if the box is alpha )
>
> As far as the 6.5.2 when running the ./configure script tests to see if the
> compiler 'gcc' can do -m486 and another intel specific option then it will
> error saying "compiler failed, cannot create executable".
>
> Hope that helps....  once again sorry  (It was late and I was tired... )

There are issues with Alpha and 6.5 -- for the RedHat RPMs, Ryan
Kirkpatrick's patches work -- you can grab those patches from my site,
www.ramifordistat.net/postgres/unpacked/non-beta

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Lamar Owen
WGCR Internet Radio
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