Hi, On 2022-08-06 22:55:14 -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > IMO, it'd be entirely reasonable for Andres to say that *he* doesn't > want to fix the meson build scripts for niche platform X. Then > it'd be up to people who care about platform X to make that happen. > Given the current plan of supporting the Makefiles for some years > more, there wouldn't even be any great urgency in that.
The "problem" in this case is that maintaining pgxs compatibility, as we'd discussed at pgcon, requires emitting stuff for all the @whatever@ things in Makefile.global.in, including with_gnu_ld. Which lead me down the rabbithole of trying to build on solaris, with sun studio, to see if we could just remove with_gnu_ld (and some others). There's a lot of replacements that really aren't needed for pgxs, including with_gnu_ld (after the patch I just sent on the "baggage" thread). I tried to think of a way to have a 'missing' equivalent for variables filled with bogus contents, to trigger an error when they're used. But I don't think there's such a thing? I haven't "really" tried because recent-ish python fails to configure on solaris without modifications, and patching python's configure was further than I wanted to go, but I don't forsee much issues supporting building on solaris with gcc. Baring minor adjustments (for e.g. dragonflybsd vs freebsd), there's two currently "supported" OS that require some work: - AIX, due to the symbol import / export & linking differences - cygwin, although calling that supported right now is a stretch... I don't think it'd be too hard, but ... Greetings, Andres Freund
