Re: [RFC] building postgres with meson

Hi,

On 2021-10-19 21:26:53 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> My notes say
>
> Currently running OSX 10.4.11 (last release of Tiger); although 10.5 Leopard
> supports PPCs, it refuses to install if CPU speed < 867MHz, well beyond the
> Cube's ability. Wikipedia does suggest it's possible to run Leopard, but...
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_OS_X_Leopard#Usage_on_unsupported_hardware
>
> I'm not sure that I have install media for 10.5 anymore, either --- ISTR
> some machine's CD drive failing and not letting me get the CD back out.
> If I did have it, I don't think there'd be a way to update past 10.5.0
> (surely Apple no longer has those updaters on-line?), so on the whole
> I think that path is a nonstarter.

That does indeed sound like a nonstarter.

> I do have 10.5 running on an old G4 PowerMac, but that machine is (a)
> noisy (b) power-hungry and (c) getting flaky, so I'm uneager to spin up
> a buildfarm animal on it.

Understandable.

> As with the HPPA, a potential compromise is to spin up some newer
> BSD-ish system on it. I agree that OSX 10.4 is uninteresting as a
> software platform, but I'd like to keep 32-bit PPC represented in
> the farm.

I assume the reason 32-bit PPC is interesting is that it's commonly run big
endian?

I wonder when it'll be faster to run 32bit ppc via qemu than natively :)

Greetings,

Andres Freund