Re: Clean up find_typedefs and add support for Mac

On 2023-12-12 Tu 18:02, Tom Lane wrote:
> "Tristan Partin" <tristan(at)neon(dot)tech> writes:
>> The big patch here is adding support for Mac. objdump -W doesn't work on
>> Mac. So, I used dsymutil and dwarfdump to achieve the same result.
> We should probably nuke the current version of src/tools/find_typedef
> altogether in favor of copying the current buildfarm code for that.
> We know that the buildfarm's version works, whereas I'm not real sure
> that src/tools/find_typedef is being used in anger by anyone. Also,
> we're long past the point where developers can avoid having Perl
> installed.
>
> Ideally, the buildfarm client would then start to use find_typedef
> from the tree rather than have its own copy, both to reduce
> duplication and to ensure that the in-tree copy keeps working.
>
>

+1. I'd be more than happy to be rid of maintaining the code. We already
performed a rather more complicated operation along these lines with the
PostgreSQL::Test::AdjustUpgrade stuff.

cheers

andrew

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