Hi, On 2022-09-15 16:48:04 -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > Andres Freund <and...@anarazel.de> writes: > > On 2022-09-13 22:45:46 -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > >> A three-line patch doesn't seem like an unreasonable thing to carry, > >> at least till these systems go out of support. We've jumped through > >> much higher hoops in the past to support niche platforms. > > > xlc 12.1 *is* out of support and there's a newer compiler installed. > > AIX 7.1 will go EOL in May. It seems to me to be reasonable to keep > these animals running till then and then shut them down [1]. In the > meantime, messing with their configurations seems like an unreasonable > amount of work compared to applying this patch.
I guess I think updating the path to the compiler in the config isn't all that heavy a lift, compared to making others understand this stuff, but... I'll push a revised patch. > > The amount of lines itself doesn't bother me. What does is that it makes an > > already complicated platform more complicated: All symbols from extension > > .so's are exported, but only for old and unsupported versions of the > > proprietary compiler. > > I have no objection to not supporting the case in the meson scripts, > if that'd make you any happier. Meson doesn't, so far, support xlc, just gcc on AIX. It'd probably not too hard to teach it, but I'm not planning to do so - doing the work to make aix w/ gcc work was already plenty effort on my end. Greetings, Andres Freund
