On 11/29/2017 11:45 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com> writes:
>> On Wed, Nov 29, 2017 at 11:34:56PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
>>> I don't really have an opinion about the relative merits of these changes,
>>> but why do anything? The existing solution has the buildfarm happy, and
>>> we've not heard any field complaints that I saw. I'm not sure we should
>>> spend more time on supporting obsolete toolchain combinations that aren't
>>> represented in the buildfarm.
>> It's the other way around. The buildfarm's 32-bit MSVC animals each use an
>> obsolete Perl. PostgreSQL is incompatible with today's 32-bit ActivePerl and
>> Strawberry Perl.
> Oh, OK. In that case, we need to get some representatives of these
> more modern builds into the buildfarm while we're at it.
>
>
My 32 bit XP machine currawong/frogmouth builds against perl 5.16.3,
build dated 2014.
cheers
andrew
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