--- On Thu, 1/4/10, Tom Lane <tgl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > But I do remember there was a set of libs called > ixemul (http://aminet.net/package/dev/gg/ixemul-bin) that a lot > of people used to port unix apps to the Amiga with, probably > not enough to port postgres though. > > Ah, I wondered if there might not be such a thing. > However, according > to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ixemul.library it doesn't > have support > for fork(), which would have been a complete showstopper > back in the day > (though since the Windows port in 8.0 we can live without > it). So that > pretty much kills any thought that it might've once worked > and we just > forgot. > And now you mention it, I remember that was exactly the reason why the last version of perl for Amiga was 5.7.2, it says there was support for vfork() but not fork() http://theory.uwinnipeg.ca/CPAN/perl/pod/perlamiga.html#perl_5_8_0_broken_in_amigaos Glyn -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
