Re: [PATCHES] [BUGS] (Modified) Patch request for PostgreSQL 7.4

[Andrew Dunstan]

It just struck me that *maybe* a portable solution would be to put the 
awk output inside genbki.sh in a .h file and then #include it in a one 
line .c file which is passed to the preprocessor. Would that keep the 
(strange) HP compiler happy?

cheers

andrew



ViSolve Open Source Team wrote:

** 
*2. About the TMPFILE definition change from .c to .h:*  
Unfortunately,  the -V option does not work the same way across HP 
compilers (it works as expected with HP aCC, but not with HP cc).  

We have a couple of alternatives here.  
 
a. Using `uname` (to look for HP-UX)  /and/ checking to see if 
*$CPP* is set to //usr/bin/cc/ or //opt/aCC/bin/aCC./ Not good.
b. Doing nothing. The TMPFILE mod is a trivial change to make with 
each new version of PostgreSQL that we build for HP-UX.  (We had in 
fact suggested this in our original request email). So if  you make no 
changes to the TMPFILE code, that will be fine too.
 
thanks
ViSolve OpenSource Team
 
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From: Bruce Momjian <[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
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Subject: Re: [BUGS] (Modified) Patch request for PostgreSQL 7.4 for HP-UX
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Peter also mentioned:
 
>You're doing this:
 
>-TMPFILE="$TMPDIR/genbkitmp$$.c"
>+TMPFILE="$TMPDIR/genbkitmp$$.h"
 
I'm afraid this will not fly, because calling the preprocessor is only
portable on .c files.  Generally, it's also unwise to rely in this kind
of subtle side effect.  We need a general solution.
 
Can you give us a way to test for your preprocessor?  Is there some
unique output like --version or -V that we can test and use *.h only
in that case?
 
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