
What are we doing with the SunOS port?  It is failing the 'bit'
regression test.  I can easily do the work if people tell me how they
want this handled.


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> > > SunOS        Tatsuo Ishii
> > >               Are we giving up on this one? Still relevant?
> > 
> > What should we do? The only remaining issue is a non-8-bit-clean
> > memcmp, which seems pretty easy to fix it.
> 
> Yes, seems we could go a few directions with SunOS:
> 
> 	Leave bit types broken on that platform, document it
> 	Hard-code in a memcmp() in C for just that platform in varbit.c
> 	Add configure test and real memcmp() function for bad platforms
> 
> Anyone want to vote on these?  Personally, SunOS seems like the
> granddaddy of ports and I would hate to see it leave, especially when we
> are so close.
> 
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Sat, 15 Dec 2001 00:52:51 -0500 (EST)
Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
Re: Third call for platform testing
Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> What are we doing with the SunOS port?  It is failing the 'bit'
> regression test.  I can easily do the work if people tell me how they
> want this handled.

Including the necessary testing?  How will you manage that?

IMHO, this will not and should not get dealt with unless some SunOS
users step up to the plate to do it.  Tatsuo evidently doesn't care
enough to do the work himself, and we haven't seen any other respondents
for SunOS in a long time.  It may be a granddaddy platform, but it's
looking a lot like a granddaddy that's passed on.

			regards, tom lane

Sat, 15 Dec 2001 03:04:23 -0500
Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Re: Third call for platform testing 
> Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> > What are we doing with the SunOS port?  It is failing the 'bit'
> > regression test.  I can easily do the work if people tell me how they
> > want this handled.
> 
> Including the necessary testing?  How will you manage that?
>
> IMHO, this will not and should not get dealt with unless some SunOS
> users step up to the plate to do it.  Tatsuo evidently doesn't care
> enough to do the work himself, and we haven't seen any other respondents
> for SunOS in a long time.  It may be a granddaddy platform, but it's
> looking a lot like a granddaddy that's passed on.

I assume I would do the patch, Tatsuo would test it, and it would then
be applied.  I work for Tatsuo now, so he doesn't have to do the work. 
I can do it for him.  :-)

SRA has clients running SunOS, so even though there aren't people on the
mailing list, there are users.

I can do the work and get it tested.  I just want to know how people
want it fixed.  Seeing as no one is saying anything, I will go ahead
with my best guess, have Tatsuo test it, and post the patch for review.

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Sat, 15 Dec 2001 21:28:08 -0500 (EST)
Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
Re: Third call for platform testing