Re: BUG #14033: cross-compilation to ARM fails

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Christoph Berg <myon(at)debian(dot)org>
Cc: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Daniel Golle <daniel(at)makrotopia(dot)org>, pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: BUG #14033: cross-compilation to ARM fails
Date: 2016-04-15 04:08:02
Message-ID: 17999.1460693282@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Christoph Berg <myon(at)debian(dot)org> writes:
> My idea was to see if pg_config could be rewritten in sh or perl
> instead so it could run both on the host and the build architecture,
> but I never got around to actually implementing something. (And
> there's the obvious problem that pg_config also needs to run on
> Windows, so sh is probably out, if we'd want to have this included in
> core. Maybe perl?)

I can't see us taking either of those answers. We haven't been willing
to accept a hard dependency on perl at build time, why would we do so
at run time?

Not sure what to do instead though :-(.

regards, tom lane

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