[Buildroot] [autobuild.buildroot.net] Build results for 2015-04-11

[Max Filippov]

On Sun, Apr 12, 2015 at 11:41 AM, Thomas Petazzoni
<thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com> wrote:
> Dear Max Filippov,
>
> On Sun, 12 Apr 2015 10:47:33 +0300, Max Filippov wrote:
>> On Sun, Apr 12, 2015 at 9:30 AM, Thomas Petazzoni
>> <thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com> wrote:
>> > Build statistics for 2015-04-11
>> >       xtensa |               postgresql-9.4.1 | NOK | http://autobuild.buildroot.net/results/cb3aa9bf4c7e38649f1a62be67c58e34cc786595/
>> >       xtensa |               postgresql-9.4.1 | NOK | http://autobuild.buildroot.net/results/1fc251eaefd56b1fc18e885debd5d97cc1261b42/
>> >       xtensa |               postgresql-9.4.1 | NOK | http://autobuild.buildroot.net/results/575fcea8b082a91c08d75db13d478b271c68083c/
>>
>> Fixed by https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/453567/
>
> Yes, I know. I am just wondering if this is the right fix. It really
> seems odd to be doing comparisons on the output of gcc. Autoconf should
> be able to do much better than that.
>
> What is this piece of code trying to do? Why doesn't it simply reply on
> the return value of gcc when testing if this or that feature is
> available?

Exactly the questions that I had.
The answer: http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/9101.1426820918@sss.pgh.pa.us
And response to this patch:
http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/20150320132351.GS3636@alvh.no-ip.org

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Thanks.
-- Max