Re: 7.3 failure on platypus

Tom Lane said:
> "Jim C. Nasby" <jnasby(at)pervasive(dot)com> writes:
>> Platypus (http://lnk.nu/pgbuildfarm.org/6yt.pl) started failing about
>> 12 days ago with the following:
>> fe-auth.c: In function `pg_local_sendauth':
>> fe-auth.c:466: error: conflicting types for 'cmsgmem'
>> fe-auth.c:459: error: previous declaration of 'cmsgmem' was here
>
> Yeah, all of the freebsd 6 buildfarm machines say that :-( ... the
> fbsd6 system headers contain some incompatible changes, evidently. It
> looks like we dealt with this in 7.4 but didn't risk back-patching.
>
> The PG 7.3 branch is definitely showing its age. I'm not sure how
> interesting it is to keep updating it for newer platforms; is anyone
> very likely to run 7.3 on a new machine, rather than some later PG?
>
> (Note: while I have a personal need to keep supporting 7.3 on RHEL3,
> this requirement does not extend to any later platforms; so I don't
> personally care very much about back-porting fixes like this.
> Obviously my opinion is biased by what Red Hat cares about.)
>

I don't care that much if 7.3 fails to build on fbsd 6. The flipside is that
the fix for this particular problem appears to be very simple and very low
risk, unless I'm going blind.

cheers

andrew