Re: A small note on the portability of cmake - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Jesse Zhang
Subject Re: A small note on the portability of cmake
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In response to A small note on the portability of cmake  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Responses Re: A small note on the portability of cmake  (Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>)
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On Sat, Jan 19, 2019 at 8:50 AM Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>
> Failed miserably.  It turns out cmake has a hard dependency on libuv
> which (a) has a hard dependency on atomic ops and (b) according to its
> own docs, doesn't really care about any platforms other than
> Linux/macOS/Windows and maybe FreeBSD.>

I beg to disagree with point b above: the libuv project continually
receives (and accepts) patches fixing bugs specifically for OpenBSD.
Atomic ops (compare-and-exchange) might be a harder dependency to shed
for libuv. Does the fallback onto compiler intrinsics
(__sync_val_compare_and_swap, or on GCC 4.7+,
__atomic_compare_exchange_n) not work here?

Jesse


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