A small note on the portability of cmake

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: A small note on the portability of cmake
Date: 2019-01-19 16:49:52
Message-ID: 20660.1547916592@sss.pgh.pa.us
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I tried to build cmake on OpenBSD running on my old HPPA hardware,
not because I cared about cmake per se but because it's a dependency
of something I did care about. Failed miserably. It turns out cmake has
a hard dependency on libuv which (a) has a hard dependency on atomic ops
and (b) according to its own docs, doesn't really care about any
platforms other than Linux/macOS/Windows and maybe FreeBSD. It looks
to me like switching to that toolchain would greatly constrict our
ability to build on non-mainstream platforms, simply because the tools
themselves fail to build.

Just sayin' ...

regards, tom lane

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