[Pkg-postgresql-private] Re: Bug#225729: postgresql_7.4.1-1(hppa/unstable): FTBFS: no spinlock support

[Oliver Elphick]

On Thu, 2004-01-01 at 18:53, Martin Pitt wrote:
> Hi Oliver and others,
> 
> On 2003-12-31 18:22 -0700, lamont@debian.org wrote:
> > Package: postgresql
> > Version: 7.4.1-1
> > Severity: serious
> > > ../../../../src/include/storage/s_lock.h:543:2: #error PostgreSQL does not have native spinlock support on this platform. To continue the compilation, rerun configure using --disable-spinlocks. However, performance will be poor. Please report this to pgsql-bugs@postgresql.org.
> 
> Oliver, did you already forward this to upstream? In the meantime we
> could disable spinlocks on hppa (which up to now is the only platform
> where this problem occurs) and upload a new version.

Yes, it's been forwarded.  They won't do a patch for 7.4.1, although it
should be OK in CVS tip.  I have a patch now that compiles on hppa, but
it still needs testing.

> BTW, Can anyone interpret the failure on s390 [1] (python-dev cannot
> be installed)?
> 
> Martin
> 
> [1] http://buildd.debian.org/fetch.php?&pkg=postgresql&ver=7.4.1-1&arch=s390&stamp=1072959745&file=log
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