Hello,
Please try the IBM C/C++ compiler.
Could you use 9.3.5? This is the latest 9.3.x version.
I have tested 9.3.5 on AIX 6.1 and AIX 7.1 without a compilation/test
failure.
Please could you post your exact ./configure call?
Bye
Rainer
On 01.08.2014 19:59, Lars Ewald (web.de) wrote:
> Hello Tom
>
> > We don't really consider a platform
> > supported unless it's got working spinlocks.
>
> I am a little bit confused about that.
>
> On the page "supported platforms" there is written that PowerPC or
> PowerPC 64 is a supported
> platform, so that I can compile postgres WITH spinlocks.
> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.3/static/supported-platforms.html
>
> Or is there a problem on the specific machine? Or is there something
> disabled
> in the kernel?
>
> Best regards
> Lars
>
> > Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> hat am 26. Juli 2014 um 00:32 geschrieben:
> >
> >
> > "Lars Ewald (web.de)" <l.ewald-web@lars-ewald.de> writes:
> > > Hello Tom,
> > > today I was able to do some tests compiling Postgres on our AIX
> machine.
> >
> > > And...it worked! :-) Configuring without spinlocks and readline
> worked fine for
> > > me and did not abort after compiling xlog.o/xlog.c.
> > > Any ideas why it does not work with spinlocks?
> >
> > Well, spinlocks are what uses the assembler code that you're having
> > trouble with.
> >
> > Note that while you can build with --disable-spinlocks, performance is
> > not likely to be acceptable. We don't really consider a platform
> > supported unless it's got working spinlocks.
> >
> > regards, tom lane