Re: [RFC] building postgres with meson

Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> writes:
> On 2021-10-19 15:22:15 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>> I'm more concerned about the effort involved in getting meson going on some
>> other old animals, such as prairiedog.

> Yea, that's an *old* OS version. One version too old to have support for
> @rpath, added in 10.5 :(. Is there a reason to run 10.4 specifically?
> According to wikipedia 10.5 is the last version to support ppc.

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.

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.

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.

regards, tom lane