Re: python / 7.4 / FC5 / x86_64

Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> writes:
> Am Montag, 4. September 2006 04:06 schrieb Andrew Dunstan:
>> Patch attached - seems to work on my FC5/x86_64 box. Also contains the
>> OSX fix backported. Not sure that it qualifies as small though :-)

> It looks pretty scary to me.

> Didn't we say once that we don't want to backport fixes for platforms that
> didn't exist at the time of first release?

There's no agreed-on policy that says that, but I'd sure be hesitant to
make any invasive changes in support of adding a new port. However,
this patch doesn't look unreasonably scary to me --- AFAICS it's just
syncing python.m4 and the plpython Makefile with 8.0's versions. I
guess the question is does it break any old platforms? Are we
comfortable with the buildfarm's coverage for python on 7.4?

regards, tom lane