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From: Sean.Levy@cs.cmu.edu
Subject: Re: postgres on AIX 3.1.x ???
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I managed to trick the libpq part of postgres into building under AIX
3.1.5, although it took SOME doing. Anything I did is #ifdef'ed under
CMUCS. At one point, in complete exasperation with AIX cc, I had to
become root and mung  /usr/include/math.h to not declare class(), which
was giving cc FITS, for some as-yet unknown reason. Never the less, the
resulting .a file seems to work (I've tested it against the testlibpq.c
client given in the libpq man page and the tcl/postgres interface I
wrote, connecting to a backend running on a sun4).

I had to tweak the makefile/compiler options almost on a per-file basis,
and I'm not sure if I can reconstruct exactly what I did; I make no
guarantees that typing "make" in src/libpq will work. I've tar'ed my
source tree plus the #ifdef'ed version of math.h I created plus the
libpq.a binary plus the testlibpq program and made it available for
anonymous FTP on monch.edrc.cmu.edu under
/usr0/snl/archive/libpq-aix3.1.tar.Z.

Please note, you must do:
	ftp> cd /usr0/snl/archive
and not
	ftp> cd /usr0/snl
	ftp> cd archive
or any other such thing due to CMU security hacks in ftpd. Like most of
my net-releases, this is in the "hackware" category (read: not pretty).
Still, if anyone derives benefit from it, so much the better.

BTW, my postgres/tcl interface is under pg-tcl.tar.Z, same host, same
directory.

I am definitely going to need full ports of postgres for all of these
*ixes at some point, so if anyone out there is  really going to burn the
effort and do them (and is willing to share), please drop me a note so
that we don't all reinvent the wheel at the same time; my current hit
list is AIX 3.1.5,  HP-UX 8.0 or higher and Mach/BSD (this is tricky: I
have to finish up a SysV IPC emulation built on Mach primitives that
someone around here started but did not finish. Alternative: port
postgres to Mach from SysVisms (then it would work under OSF/1, I
think)... I have no idear how hard this would be). Of course, if I do it
first, I'll post, but it is low on the priority list at the moment.

Cheers,
		-- Sean
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