Sun Dec  4 21:26:21 PST 1994

postgres is likely not to work on aix 4.1, though i'd be interested in
hearing what it takes to make it work.  apply the following fix before 
building under 3.2.5:

  From: aoki@cs.berkeley.edu (Paul M. Aoki)
  To: egan@cbs.cis.com (Egan F. Ford)
  Cc: postgres@postgres.Berkeley.EDU (Postgres Mailing List)
  Subject: Re: Bmake build fail on aix3.2.5 
  Date: Fri, 19 Aug 94 12:28:40 -0700
  
  egan@cbs.cis.com (Egan F. Ford) writes:
  > I've built postgres for linux and now would like to build it for AIX 3.2.5,
  > the install docs say that it is a tested platform.  I cannot get bmake to
  > build.
  > "compat.c", line 280.20: 1506-021 (S) Expecting struct or union.
  > "compat.c", line 282.29: 1506-021 (S) Expecting struct or union.
  > "compat.c", line 293.23: 1506-021 (S) Expecting struct or union.
  
  go into compat.c and job.c and wherever you see "WIFsomething(foo.w_status)"
  change it to "WIFsomething(foo)".  i broke this for AIX when porting to
  solaris (i checked that it works on everything else just now).
  
  (i ran regress and multiuser tests on everything but only bootstrapped
  from the tar file on about 1/3 of the platforms.  this one slipped through
  the cracks, oh well, sorry.  i don't get paid to do this..)
  
  while i'm here, postgres will not work on mips R4000 boxes (i.e., dec 
  ultrix boxes upgraded with the R4000 daughter cards) -- the ultrix 
  dynamic loader fiddles around with opcodes.  it will also not work
  on the alpha multiprocessors (running osf/1 3.0) with >1 processor,
  though this one has been figured out.
  --
    Paul M. Aoki          |  University of California at Berkeley
    aoki@CS.Berkeley.EDU  |  Dept. of EECS, Computer Science Division (#1776) 
                          |  Berkeley, CA 94720-1776