This is an updated FAQ_SCO patch that inludes yesterday's changes, and also
the float4/float8 issue I raised.
Index: FAQ_SCO
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RCS file: /projects/cvsroot/pgsql-server/doc/FAQ_SCO,v
retrieving revision 1.9
diff -u -r1.9 FAQ_SCO
--- FAQ_SCO 8 Nov 2002 16:49:15 -0000 1.9
+++ FAQ_SCO 15 May 2004 00:06:29 -0000
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
original author: Andrew Merrill (andrew@compclass.com)
-PostgreSQL 7.3 can be built on SCO UnixWare 7 and SCO OpenServer 5.
+PostgreSQL 7.5 can be built on SCO UnixWare 7 and SCO OpenServer 5.
On OpenServer, you can use either the OpenServer Development Kit or
the Universal Development Kit.
@@ -23,6 +23,8 @@
*) Compiling PostgreSQL using the UDK
*) Reading the PostgreSQL man pages
*) C99 Issues with the 7.1.1b Feature Supplement
+*) --enable-thread-safety and UnixWare
+*) float4/float8 regression failures on NaN and inf I/O.
***************************************************************************
@@ -44,6 +46,8 @@
you install the correct version for your operating system, except as noted
below.
+Note: on UnixWare 7.1.3 and beyond, the GCC compiler is included on the UDK
+CD as is GNUMake.
***************************************************************************
*) GNU Make
@@ -52,6 +56,9 @@
default, it installs as /usr/local/bin/make. To avoid confusion with the
SCO make program, you may want to rename GNU make to gmake.
+As of UnixWare 7.1.3 and above, the GNU Make program is is the OSTK portion
+of the UDK CD, and is in /usr/gnu/bin/gmake.
+
***************************************************************************
*) Readline
@@ -149,4 +156,28 @@
error in compiling tuplesort.c referencing inline functions.
Apparently there was a change in the 7.1.2(8.0.0) compiler and beyond.
+
+
+***************************************************************************
+*) --enable-thread-safety and UnixWare
+
+If you use the --enable-thread-safety configure flag, you *MUST* use
-Kpthread
+on ALL libpq using programs.
+
+libpq uses pthread_* calls, which are only available with the
+-Kpthread/-Kthread flag.
+
+***************************************************************************
+*) float4/float8 regression failures on NaN and inf I/O.
+
+You will see regression failures for the float4 and float8 regression
+tests on the NaN and inf I/O functions. This is due to a bug in SCO's
strtod
+library function on BOTH UnixWare and OpenServer. It's slated to be fixed
+in the first maintenance / update for UnixWare 7.1.4, and probably the
+next MP/UP for OpenServer 5.0.7 (I'm not sure on the OSR side as of the
time
+I'm writing this (2004-05-14).
+
+You might also see Join test failures due to ordering differences, and
these
+are ok.
+
--
Larry Rosenman http://www.lerctr.org/~ler
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