Re: killing perl2host

On 2/17/22 12:12, Andres Freund wrote:
> 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?

Is that available in check_modules.pl? AFAICT it's an unexported shell
variable.

cheers

andrew

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