Re: failing to build preproc.c on solaris with sun studio

From: Thomas Munro <thomas(dot)munro(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>
Cc: Noah Misch <noah(at)leadboat(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: failing to build preproc.c on solaris with sun studio
Date: 2022-08-07 00:22:02
Message-ID: CA+hUKGJwmje3hrRB5pnpKXb_7JC4g7oX4pPZvZXFoeK635UcdQ@mail.gmail.com
Views: Raw Message | Whole Thread | Download mbox | Resend email
Thread:
Lists: pgsql-hackers

On Sun, Aug 7, 2022 at 11:52 AM Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> wrote:
> Yikes. And it's not like newer compiler versions are likely to be forthcoming
> (12.6 is newest and is from 2017...). Wonder if we should just require gcc on
> solaris... There's a decent amount of stuff we could rip out in that case.

Independently of the RAM requirements topic, I totally agree that
doing extra work to support a compiler that hasn't had a release in 5
years doesn't seem like time well spent.

In response to

Browse pgsql-hackers by date

  From Date Subject
Next Message Tom Lane 2022-08-07 00:25:13 Re: Cleaning up historical portability baggage
Previous Message Thomas Munro 2022-08-07 00:14:18 Re: Cleaning up historical portability baggage