On 11/29/2017 11:45 PM, Tom Lane wrote: > Noah Misch <n...@leadboat.com> writes: >> On Wed, Nov 29, 2017 at 11:34:56PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote: >>> I don't really have an opinion about the relative merits of these changes, >>> but why do anything? The existing solution has the buildfarm happy, and >>> we've not heard any field complaints that I saw. I'm not sure we should >>> spend more time on supporting obsolete toolchain combinations that aren't >>> represented in the buildfarm. >> It's the other way around. The buildfarm's 32-bit MSVC animals each use an >> obsolete Perl. PostgreSQL is incompatible with today's 32-bit ActivePerl and >> Strawberry Perl. > Oh, OK. In that case, we need to get some representatives of these > more modern builds into the buildfarm while we're at it. > >
My 32 bit XP machine currawong/frogmouth builds against perl 5.16.3, build dated 2014. cheers andrew -- Andrew Dunstan https://www.2ndQuadrant.com PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Remote DBA, Training & Services
