Re: failing to build preproc.c on solaris with sun studio - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: failing to build preproc.c on solaris with sun studio
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Msg-id 181960.1659840914@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: failing to build preproc.c on solaris with sun studio  (Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com>)
Responses Re: failing to build preproc.c on solaris with sun studio
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Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com> writes:
> On Sat, Aug 06, 2022 at 06:09:27PM -0700, Andres Freund wrote:
>> And it's not a cost free thing to support, e.g. I tried to build because
>> solaris with suncc forces me to generate with_gnu_ld when generating a
>> compatible Makefile.global for pgxs with meson.

> There may be a strong argument along those lines.  Let's suppose you were to
> write that revoking sunpro support would save four weeks of Andres Freund time
> in the meson adoption project.  I bet a critical mass of people would like
> that trade.  That's orthogonal to preproc.o compilation RAM usage.

IMO, it'd be entirely reasonable for Andres to say that *he* doesn't
want to fix the meson build scripts for niche platform X.  Then
it'd be up to people who care about platform X to make that happen.
Given the current plan of supporting the Makefiles for some years
more, there wouldn't even be any great urgency in that.

            regards, tom lane



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