Re: Include ppc64le build type for back branches

From: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Sandeep Thakkar <sandeep(dot)thakkar(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>
Cc: "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Include ppc64le build type for back branches
Date: 2015-12-08 17:24:09
Message-ID: 56671239.2090408@dunslane.net
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On 12/08/2015 10:27 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
> Sandeep Thakkar <sandeep(dot)thakkar(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> writes:
>> So, config.guess should be changed to include the build type for ppc64le
>> like it is in 9.4+ branches.
> So far as I can tell from a quick troll of the git history, we have never
> ever updated config.guess/config.sub in released branches. I'm a bit
> hesitant to do it in this case either: it would amount to retroactively
> adding support for a platform, which sure sounds like a new feature.
>
> My vote would be to adjust your buildfarm critter to only try to build
> 9.4 and up.
>
>

Or put what he said works in his critter's build-farm.conf in the
config_opts section, something like:

--build=powerpc64le-unknown-linux-gnu

cheers

andrew

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