Re: [GENERAL] Alpha FreeBSD

Lamar Owen wrote:

> 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
>
> --
> Lamar Owen
> WGCR Internet Radio
> 1 Peter 4:11

Thanks but I am running FreeBSD on these boxes.

Do have any patches for FreeBSD 4.0 ? for alpha

nathan