Andres Freund <and...@anarazel.de> writes: > One important thing to call out: Meson has support for the AIX linker, but > *not* the xlc compiler. I.e. one has to use gcc (or clang, but I didn't > try). I don't know if we'd require adding support for xlc to meson - xlc is > pretty buggy and it doesn't seem particularly crucial to support such an old > crufty compiler on a platform that's not used to a significant degree?
While I have no particular interest in AIX or xlc specifically, I do worry about us becoming a builds-on-gcc-or-workalikes-only project. I suppose MSVC provides a little bit of a cross-check, but I don't really like giving up on other compilers. Discounting gcc+clang+MSVC leaves just a few buildfarm animals, and the xlc ones are a significant part of that population. (In fact, unless somebody renews fossa/husky's icc license, the three xlc animals will be an outright majority of them, because wrasse and anole are the only other active animals with non-mainstream compilers.) Having said that, I don't plan to be the one trying to get meson to add xlc support ... regards, tom lane