Re: State of the QNX Port

Tegge, Bernd writes:

> * config/prep_buildtree :
>    * caused configure to exit, because the QNX shell may or may not return
>      an exit code of 0 if a script just ends without an exit statement.
>      added an 'exit 0' as last line

Okay.

>    * the script  called from configure replaced all Makefiles with
>      symlinks to themselves. This is because configure notices a difference
>      between $abs_top_builddir and $abs_top_srcdir. However they are the
>      same; the former just contains a net absolute path (i.e. has a
>      //<node> prefix ). This might also happen if the path contains a
>      symlink that is being resolved in one of the variables.
>      probably QNX specific

I'm not sure I believe that.  We have

abs_top_srcdir=`cd $srcdir && pwd`
abs_top_builddir=`pwd`

($srcdir should be '.' in most cases.)  prep_buildtree is called only if
those are different.  This should not happen unless your pwd program has a
behaviour I've never heard of.  Please investigate.

> * The shell command for remove-old-headers in ~/src/include/Makefile gave a
>    syntax error, because of a missing semicolon:

Okay.

> * missing -lz in ~/src/bin/pg_dump/Makefile for pg_dump and pg_restore.
>    pg_dump and pg_restore make calls into the zlib, but have no -lz in the
>    link command.

-lz should be found by configure and should be in the LIBS variable.
Look for lines

checking for zlib.h... yes
checking for inflate in -lz... yes

when configuring.  As you seemingly do have libz installed, maybe you
could check in config.log why they're not found.

> - replacement ~/src/backend/port/dynloader/qnx4.h
>    (clashed with the new fmgr code )

Can you explain the nature of the "clash"?  I don't follow your change
offhand.

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