Please forget all I said about gcc and AIX in my previous mail.

It does work with the following patch applied and gcc 2.95.2 .

Use --with-template=aix_gcc to compile the whole lot with gcc.

The geometry regression test produces different precision.
With optimization I run into regression failures starting at oidjoins,
thus no -O2. Anybody else try gcc 2.95.2 and -O2 on beta4 ?

This is an important patch, since recent versions of the IBM compiler
are not for free, and thus most questions I get concern gcc.

Andreas

PS.: I am testing with beta4

src/makefiles/Makefile.aix

@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ MKLDEXPORT=$(SRCDIR)/backend/port/aix/mkldexport.sh
 $(POSTGRES_IMP):
 	@echo Making $@
 	$(MKLDEXPORT) postgres $(BINDIR) > $@
-	$(CC) -bE:$(SRCDIR)/backend/$@ -o postgres $(OBJS) ../utils/version.o $(LDFLAGS)
+	$(CC) -Wl,-bE:$(SRCDIR)/backend/$@ -o postgres $(OBJS) ../utils/version.o $(LDFLAGS)
 
 %$(EXPSUFF):
 	$(MKLDEXPORT) $*.o `pwd` > $*$(EXPSUFF)

src/template/aix_gcc

 AROPT:crs
-CFLAGS:-fsigned-chars
-SHARED_LIB:
+CFLAGS:-pipe
+CXXFLAGS:-pipe
+SHARED_LIB:-lc
 ALL:
 SRCH_INC:
 SRCH_LIB: