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