I wrote:
What *does* seem feasible is to back-port just the single change we
actually need, by copying the two relevant macros into one of our
config/ source files for the configure script. I've tested that in
8.3 and it seems to work --- at least, the generated configure script
changes in
Andrew Dunstan and...@dunslane.net writes:
On 08/28/2011 04:15 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
The bottom line seems to be that autoconf 2.59 is seriously broken on
recent toolchains. Should we try to do something about that, like
migrate the 8.2 and 8.3 releases to a newer autoconf? 8.2 is close
I spent a bit of time looking into $SUBJECT. The cause of the failure
is that configure mistakenly decides that setproctitle and some other
functions are available, when they aren't; this eventually leads to link
failures of course.
Now 8.2 and 8.3 use autoconf 2.59. 8.4 and up, which do not
On 08/28/2011 04:15 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
I spent a bit of time looking into $SUBJECT. The cause of the failure
is that configure mistakenly decides that setproctitle and some other
functions are available, when they aren't; this eventually leads to link
failures of course.
Now 8.2 and 8.3 use
Andrew Dunstan and...@dunslane.net writes:
On 08/28/2011 04:15 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
The bottom line seems to be that autoconf 2.59 is seriously broken on
recent toolchains. Should we try to do something about that, like
migrate the 8.2 and 8.3 releases to a newer autoconf? 8.2 is close
On 08/28/2011 05:51 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
Is -O3 a recommended setting for icc?
No idea. But after a bit of man-page-reading I think it's probably not
the -O level that counts, so much as the fact that anchovy is using
-flto (link-time optimization) in CFLAGS. I don't see any indication
Andrew Dunstan and...@dunslane.net writes:
On 08/28/2011 05:51 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
Is -O3 a recommended setting for icc?
No idea. But after a bit of man-page-reading I think it's probably not
the -O level that counts, so much as the fact that anchovy is using
-flto (link-time optimization)
On 08/28/2011 06:21 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
Andrew Dunstanand...@dunslane.net writes:
On 08/28/2011 05:51 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
Is -O3 a recommended setting for icc?
No idea. But after a bit of man-page-reading I think it's probably not
the -O level that counts, so much as the fact that anchovy
