We have tested the patches on three platforms:

NetBSD/macppc
LinuxPPC
FreeBSD 2.2.6-RELEASE

All of them seem happy with the regression test. Note that, however,
compiling with optimization enabled on NetBSD/macppc causes an initdb
failure (other two platforms are ok). After checking the asm code, we
are suspecting that might be a compiler(egcs) bug.

Tatsuo Ishii

src/backend/port/dynloader/bsd.c

@@ -79,6 +79,8 @@ BSD44_derived_dlsym(void *handle, const char *name)
 #if defined(__mips__) || (defined(__NetBSD__) && defined(vax))
 	sprintf(error_message, "dlsym (%s) failed", name);
 	return NULL;
+#elif defined(__ELF__)
+	return dlsym(handle, name);
 #else
 	void	   *vp;
 	char		buf[BUFSIZ];

src/backend/storage/buffer/s_lock.c

@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
  *
  *
  * IDENTIFICATION
- *	  $Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/src/backend/storage/buffer/Attic/s_lock.c,v 1.17 1999/02/13 23:18:02 momjian Exp $
+ *	  $Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/src/backend/storage/buffer/Attic/s_lock.c,v 1.18 1999/03/14 16:03:00 momjian Exp $
  *
  *-------------------------------------------------------------------------
  */
@@ -118,7 +118,7 @@ _success:			\n\
 
 #endif	 /* __m68k__ */
 
-#if defined(PPC)
+#if defined(__powerpc__)
 /* Note: need a nice gcc constrained asm version so it can be inlined */
 static void
 tas_dummy()
@@ -140,7 +140,7 @@ success:			\n\
 	");
 }
 
-#endif	 /* PPC */
+#endif	 /* __powerpc__ */
 
 #if defined(__mips)
 static void

src/backend/utils/adt/dt.c

@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
  *
  *
  * IDENTIFICATION
- *	  $Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/src/backend/utils/adt/Attic/dt.c,v 1.65 1999/02/13 23:19:11 momjian Exp $
+ *	  $Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/src/backend/utils/adt/Attic/dt.c,v 1.66 1999/03/14 16:03:04 momjian Exp $
  *
  *-------------------------------------------------------------------------
  */
@@ -4533,7 +4533,7 @@ EncodeTimeSpan(struct tm * tm, double fsec, int style, char *str)
 }	/* EncodeTimeSpan() */
 
 
-#if defined(linux) && defined(PPC)
+#if defined(linux) && defined(__powerpc__)
 int
 datetime_is_epoch(double j)
 {