Re: [PORTS] RedHat6.0 & Alpha

On Fri, 30 Jul 1999, Thomas Lockhart wrote:

> > > As I see it, these are the following things that need to be added
> > > to 6.5.1 to make it alpha ready:
> > >       * Uncle G's Alpha patches { which I have }.
> > >       * Makefile conditionals for Linux/Alpha
> > >       * Bruce's alignment patches { which I do not have }.
> > > Bruce, if you could get me your alignment patches, then I will try and
> > > apply the above to 6.5.1, and make a patch that bring 6.5.1 up to alpha
> > > ready state.
>
> I *love* this plan.

    Great!

> And I'll go one better: v6.5.x is not "dead", in the sense that Tom
> Lane has been faithfully applying relevant patches for his fixes in
> case a v6.5.2 is released. I'll guess that the Intel problems noted
> with the main tree are not present in the v6.5.x tree, so any new
> problems noted would be due to the upcoming Alpha patches.

    So, if I understand this correctly, the snapshot available on the
FTP site is from the unstable tree, and there is a "stable 6.5.x" tree
that can only be access by cvs{up}? And that this stable tree should not
have quite as much delta from 6.5.1 as the snapshots do? Or did I miss
something?

> Let's develop patches on 6.5.x (I'll post snapshots when we want them)
> and Lamar and I can test the Intel behavior.

    Ok, patches are in progress. Regression tests passed, now pounding
on it with some of my own applications.

> We can publish an Alpha candidate tree so the debian folks can look at
> it, and we can build a RPM for someone (Uncle George?) to test on a
> RedHat box.

    Sounds good.

> v6.5.2 might be possible yet ;)

    Hmm... I don't think other people want to roll in the alpha
patches into the stable tree (with good reason). I think we are best off
with just an alpha only version of pgsql via patches on 6.5.1, and leave
integration of the alpha patches into the full pgsql source tree for 6.6.
My two cents.

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