Re: Fwd: Re: Compile fails on AIX 6.1

"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