Re: spinlock support for Sun Studio 12 compiler on linux

"Len Zaifman" <leonardz(at)sickkids(dot)ca> writes:
> The following error occuredbuilding Postgresql 8.2.4 on SLES 9 using SUN STUDIO 12 compilers
> sunstudio12/bin/cc -O -I../../../../src/include -D_GNU_SOURCE -c -o xlog.o xlog.c
> "../../../../src/include/storage/s_lock.h", line 810: #error: PostgreSQL does not have native spinlock support on this
> platform. To continue the compilation, rerun configure using --disable-spinlocks. However, performance will be poor.
> Please report this to pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org(dot)

By and large we don't try to support nonstandard compilers on Linux.
Use gcc.

regards, tom lane