Date: Thu, 17 Aug 1995 00:25:20 -0700 (PDT) From: agc@uts.amdahl.com (Alistair G. Crooks) To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Cc: chrish@alpha.techspecs.com, ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Postgres95 for FreeBSD Message-ID: <m0sizKK-0000FoC@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com> In-Reply-To: <15527.808630795@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Aug 16, 95 08:39:55 pm
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> > I would like to send the FreeBSD team a port of Postgres95 which two > > Berkeley grad students are working on. I was able to do the necessary > > "minor" additions, changes to the code for it to support FreeBSD. Where do > > I put the tar file and who do I contact? I mailed a similar request to you > > a week or two ago but you must have been too busy to reply. If you aren't > > the right person, would you please direct to someone who will help, thanks. > > It must have been lost somewhere since I know I would have expressed > an interest if I'd seen such a thing - we've wanted a postgres port > for some time! > > If you can put the diffs necessary for FreeBSD along with a URL to the > original sources, we can integrate this into /usr/ports/databases so > that people can easily find it. As of Postgres95 beta 0.02, using the NetBSD portname, and as of Postgres95 beta 0.03 using the bsd44_derived portname, there is already support for FreeBSD. I have seen mail from people that they have Postgres95 working on FreeBSD, although the FreeBSD version numbers were unknown. It will also run, out of the box, on NetBSD/i386 and NetBSD/sparc, as well as BSD/OS 2.0, with a little massaging to handle their dld functions, as opposed to the dl_*. The site for Postgres95 is: ftp://s2k-ftp.cs.berkeley.edu/pub/postgres95 I've exchanged mail with two people, who for the moment shall remain nameless, who said that they would try pg95 beta 0.03 on FreeBSD, and I have yet to hear back from them. But there again, I'm still waiting to hear back from Jordan when I mailed him in February, asking him if he wanted to meet up for a meal. :-) Alistair PS. Note that version 2.5.2 of flex is needed to make pg95, as is GNU make. -- Alistair G. Crooks (agc@uts.amdahl.com) +44 125 234 6377 Amdahl European HQ, Dogmersfield Park, Hartley Wintney, Hants RG27 8TE, UK. [These are only my opinions, and certainly not those of Amdahl Corporation]
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