| From: | Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Thomas Munro <thomas(dot)munro(at)gmail(dot)com> |
| Cc: | pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Mikael Kjellström <mikael(dot)kjellstrom(at)gmail(dot)com> |
| Subject: | Re: Time to upgrade buildfarm coverage for some EOL'd OSes? |
| Date: | 2021-10-10 12:51:38 |
| Message-ID: | 495cf2e2-6c76-0122-d15c-d271bf490ca4@enterprisedb.com |
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On 08.10.21 00:40, Tom Lane wrote:
> As far as that goes, I thought we had a policy against auto-detecting
> user-visible features. From memory, the rationale goes like "if you
> want feature X you should say so, so that the build will fail if we
> can't provide it". Thus we make you say something like --with-openssl
> even though it wouldn't be particularly hard to auto-detect. Peter E.
> can probably advocate more strongly for this approach.
Yeah, there used to be RPMs shipped that accidentally omitted readline
support.
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