Re: killing perl2host

Hi,

On 2022-02-17 09:20:56 -0500, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> I don't think we have or have ever had a buildfarm animal targeting
> msys. In general I think of msys as a build environment to create native
> binaries. But if we want to support targeting msys we should have an
> animal doing that.

It's pretty much cygwin. Wouldn't hurt to have a dedicated animal though, I
agree. We do have a dedicated path for it in configure.ac:

case $host_os in
...
cygwin*|msys*) template=cygwin ;;

> > I think this means we should do the msys test in configure, inside
> >
> > if test "$enable_tap_tests" = yes; then
> >
> > and verify that $host_os != msys.

> config/check_modules.pl is probably the right place for the test, as it
> will be running with the perl we should be testing, and is only called
> if we configure with TAP tests enabled.

Makes sense.

> perhaps something like:
>
>
>     my $msystem = $ENV{MSYSTEM} || 'undef';
>
>     die "incompatible perl" if $Config{osname} eq 'msys' && $msystem ne
> 'MSYS';

Why tests MSYSTEM instead of $host_os?

Greetings,

Andres Freund