Re: Things I learned about PG8 on AIX5.3 with XLC compiler

RMohan@arbinet.com ("Mohan, Ross") writes:
It would be worthwhile to try to formulate this as a patch to the
FAQ_AIX file.  Probably something like....

PostgreSQL 8 on AIX 5.3, compiled using VisualAge C
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- Use only default optimization.  Higher optimization levels have been
  observed to lead to runtime problems, particularly with IPA

- Be sure to "export OBJECT_MODE=64" to compile in 64 bit mode

- Upgrading m4/autoconf helps with ./configure.

- m4 needs __STDC__ defined in order to avoid "va_list" compilation
  errors.

- Setting LIBPATH (to what???) has proved useful
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