Re: ppc64le support in 9.3 branch? - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: ppc64le support in 9.3 branch?
Date
Msg-id 7998.1527004612@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: ppc64le support in 9.3 branch?  (Christoph Berg <myon@debian.org>)
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Christoph Berg <myon@debian.org> writes:
> Re: Tom Lane 2018-03-23 <1219.1521831286@sss.pgh.pa.us>
>> The compromise I'm inclined to offer is to see what happens if we
>> back-patch 9.4's config.guess and config.sub.  If that makes these
>> animals go green, and doesn't break any others, we'll call it good.
>> Otherwise, we revert that change and say we're not putting any
>> additional effort into it.

> Fwiw, apt.postgresql.org has been building+regression testing 9.3 on
> ppc64el on various Debian+Ubuntu releases for more than a year now.
> The only requirement is updating config.guess/sub.

FWIW, I'm still in favor of that back-patch.  But I was outvoted
before, and I dunno if this new info will change anyone's mind.

            regards, tom lane


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