ViSolve Open Source Team wrote:
> Bruce,
> 
> Thanks for the comments/questions.  A couple of points in response:
> 
> 1. About the #if defined (_HP_aCC) || defined (_HP_cc)
> 
> We agree.  That line can go. 

OK.

> 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.

Shame that there is no clean solution.  Shame there some output from -V
that would identifity it as the HPUX compiler.  I am not worried about
your making a custom version, but buy folks who download the community
release and get failures.  Well, I guess we will just wait and see how
often it happens.

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