Re: Out-of-date clang/llvm version lists in PGAC_LLVM_SUPPORT

Hi,

On 2022-11-08 13:08:45 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> I happened to notice that these lists of supported versions haven't
> been updated in a good long time:
>
> PGAC_PATH_PROGS(LLVM_CONFIG, llvm-config llvm-config-7 llvm-config-6.0 llvm-config-5.0 llvm-config-4.0 llvm-config-3.9)
>
> PGAC_PATH_PROGS(CLANG, clang clang-7 clang-6.0 clang-5.0 clang-4.0 clang-3.9)
>
> Given the lack of complaints, it seems likely that nobody is relying
> on these. Maybe we should just nuke them?

Yea, that's probably a good idea. Pretty clear that that should happen only in
HEAD?

> I may be missing it, but it doesn't look like meson.build has any
> equivalent lists. So that might be an argument for getting rid
> of the lists here?

The list is just in meson, it has a builtin helper for depending on llvm. So
that's not quite an argument unfortunately.

Greetings,

Andres Freund