Re: Raising our compiler requirements for 9.6

From: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Noah Misch <noah(at)leadboat(dot)com>, "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Raising our compiler requirements for 9.6
Date: 2015-08-05 15:28:24
Message-ID: 20150805152824.GK12598@awork2.anarazel.de
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On 2015-08-05 11:23:22 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> writes:
> > I'm ok with that too, although I do like the warning at configure
> > time. I'd go with the template approach due to that, but I don't feel
> > strongly about it.
>
> Meh. I did *not* like the way you proposed doing that: it looked far too
> dependent on autoconf internals (the kind that they change regularly).

Hm, I'd actually checked that as_echo worked back till 9.0. But it
doesn't exist in much older releases.

> If you can think of a way of emitting a warning that isn't going to break
> in a future autoconf release, then ok.

echo "$as_me: WARNING: disabling inlining on 32 bit aix due to a bug in xlc" 2>&1

then. That'd have worked back in 7.4 and the worst that'd happen is that
$as_me is empty.

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