Bruce Momjian wrote: > Peter Eisentraut wrote: > > Bruce Momjian writes: > > > > > > BUT: The default CFLAGS are set by configure to -O2, although the template > > > > wants -O. I manually modified the CFLAGS to -O after configure. > > > > > > template/alpha has: > > > > > > case $host_cpu in > > > alpha*) CFLAGS="$CFLAGS -O";; # alpha has problems with -O2 > > > esac > > > > > > Is this not getting invoked? > > > > After further consideration, I think that the recent patch series that > > tried to centralize the CFLAGS handling in configure should be reverted to > > configure.in revision 1.293. Otherwise, it's much to complicated to > > handle all the special cases. There is, after all, a reason we have been > > forced to keep it this way all these years. > > Remember the old code had CFLAGS="" in lots of platforms, meaning they > got no optimization. > > It seems right now Alpha is our only problem, and it is really just a > message problem because the later flags override the earlier ones. Why > can't get just remove -O2 from the alpha CFLAGS line via makefile magic? > Frankly, we could just do CFLAGS="-O" and be done with it because we > would not be bringing in the -O2, but I would rather keep it clean and > remove just -O2. > > I don't think going backwards is a good solution because it spreads the > problem down to the templates again.
In fact, another question is why this alpha test is only done in freebsd? Certainly other alpha gcc platforms must have problems with -O2? I am inclined to add something to configure.in for all alpha compiles that changes -O2 to -O. -- Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us [EMAIL PROTECTED] | (610) 359-1001 + If your life is a hard drive, | 13 Roberts Road + Christ can be your backup. | Newtown Square, Pennsylvania 19073 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 5: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faqs/FAQ.html
