Re: Time to retire Windows XP buildfarm host?

On 12/05/2016 11:38 AM, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
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> On 12/05/2016 11:17 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
>> Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> writes:
>>> Windows XP has been past end of life for quite some time.
>>> Nevertheless I
>>> have kept my instance running with three buildfarm members: frogmouth,
>>> currawong and brolga. Howeever, a recent commit (apparently fa2fa99,
>>> but
>>> I'm not 100% sure) started causing a compiler segmentation fault on
>>> frogmouth, the mingw/gcc-4.5.0 animal running on this machine.
>>> ...
>>> Does anyone have any strong opinion in favor of keeping any of these
>>> animals running?
>> Hm, a look through our commit logs finds multiple mentions of each of
>> these animals as having been the only one showing a particular
>> portability
>> issue. So I'm worried about loss of portability coverage. Are you sure
>> that the animals' build options and choices of toolchains are replicated
>> elsewhere?
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> Not exactly the same, no. e.g. jacana is similar but it doesn't build
> with python, tcl or openssl, and does build with nls, it's 64bit vs
> 32bit, and it runs a more modern compiler on a more modern OS.
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> If you think it's worth it I will put some effort into fixing
> frogmouth. I can certainly keep the others running for a while with
> little difficulty. I will disable frogmouth until I get a chance to
> look for a fix - next week at the earliest.
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... and miraculously it has fixed itself.

cheers

andrew