Minor improvements

Author: petere

doc/FAQ_IRIX

@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) for PostgreSQL 7.2
 IRIX Specific
 TO BE READ IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE NORMAL FAQ
 =======================================================
-last updated:           $Date: 2001/12/03 19:33:35 $
+last updated:           $Date: 2001/12/19 18:50:48 $
 
 current maintainer:     Luis Amigo (lamigo@atc.unican.es)
 original author:        Luis Amigo (lamigo@atc.unican.es)
@@ -26,44 +26,41 @@ and r12000(ip35) processors, running IRIX 6.5.5m, 6.5.12 and 6.5.13 with
 MIPSPro compilers version 7.30, 7.3.1.2m and 7.3. 
 
 Aside from the PostgreSQL source distribution, you will need GNU make
-(SGI's make will not do), and MIPSPro full ANSI C compiler.
+(SGI's make will not do), and the MIPSPro full ANSI C compiler.
 
-Until now there are problems trying to install with GNU's gcc, it is a known
-gcc bug (not fixed at current date, version 3.0) using functions that return
-some kind of structures. This bug affects functions like inet_ntoa,
-inet_lnaof, inet_netof, inet_makeaddr and semctl.  It is supposed to be fixed
-by forcing code to link those functions with libgcc, but this has not been
-tested yet.
+There are problems trying to build with GCC.  It is a known gcc bug
+(not fixed as of version 3.0) related to using functions that return
+certain kinds of structures. This bug affects functions like
+inet_ntoa, inet_lnaof, inet_netof, inet_makeaddr and semctl.  It is
+supposed to be fixed by forcing code to link those functions with
+libgcc, but this has not been tested yet.
 
 
 1.2)	Anything special about the build/install procedure?
 
-In order to compile with cc you will need to:
+In order to compile with cc you will need to execute:
 
-configure with-CC=cc
+CC=cc ./configure
 
-Or you may edit postgres.../src/templates/irix5
+You may want to edit src/templates/irix5 to include something like:
 
-including something like:
-
-CC=cc
 CFLAGS='-O2'
 LDFLAGS='-O2'
 
-It is a good place to improve performance on postgresql, because here you
+It is a good place to improve performance of PostgreSQK, because here you
 may use all MIPSPro power generating specific objects, see man cc.
 
-Other known problem is include location, it may be different from some
-compiler installations to others, if you are getting something like:
+Another known problem is include location, it may be different from some
+compiler installations to others.  This may manifest itself with something like:
 
 cc-1020 cc: ERROR File = pqcomm.c, Line = 427
   The identifier "TCP_NODELAY" is undefined.
 
                 if (setsockopt(port->sock, IPPROTO_TCP, TCP_NODELAY,
 
 Some versions include TCP definitions in <sys/xti.h>, so it is necessary to
-add #include <sys/xti.h> in /src/backend/libpq/pqcomm.c and in
-src/interfaces/libpq/fe-connect.c
+add #include <sys/xti.h> in src/backend/libpq/pqcomm.c and in
+src/interfaces/libpq/fe-connect.c.
 
 
 1.3)	OK, it seemed to build and install, but the regression test fails.