On 2021-11-02 09:27:17 +1300, Thomas Munro wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 2, 2021 at 8:25 AM Tom Lane wrote:
> > 6. While configure.py thinks it knows what to do on AIX, it fails
> > on AIX 7.1 and 7.2:
> >
> > Traceback (most recent call last):
> > File "./configure.py", line 544, in
> > if platform
Andres Freund writes:
> On 2021-11-01 15:25:08 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>> Fortunately for my
>> purposes here, it seems to work with fairly old Python --- I built
>> successfully with python 2.6.2, though not with 2.4.1.
> meson will need a newer python though...
Yup. I was just trying to establ
Hi,
On 2021-11-01 15:25:08 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Meson depends on ninja, so it behooves us to look into portability
> of ninja if we're considering migrating to meson as the build system.
> I tried it out quickly on some ancient platforms, and here's what
> I found.
Thanks, that's helpful!
>
On Tue, Nov 2, 2021 at 8:25 AM Tom Lane wrote:
> 5. It built and passed self-test on Solaris 11, but failed self-test
> on Solaris 10.
I haven't had time to actually do anything with it yet, but I can
report that meson and ninja are, as of quite recently, available in
the package repository of Op
On Tue, Nov 2, 2021 at 8:25 AM Tom Lane wrote:
> 6. While configure.py thinks it knows what to do on AIX, it fails
> on AIX 7.1 and 7.2:
>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "./configure.py", line 544, in
> if platform.is_aix() and not platform.is_os400_pase():
> File "./configur
Hi,
On 11/1/21 15:25, Tom Lane wrote:
So it's pretty clear that if we go this way, it'll be the end of
the line for support for some very old OS versions. I can't,
however, argue with the idea that it's reasonable to require
POSIX 2001 support now. Based on these results, I doubt that
ninja wi
