Re: many animals are running old clients

On Fri, Aug 17, 2018 at 10:27 PM, Andrew Dunstan <
andrew(dot)dunstan(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:

>
> Animal owners,
>
>
> The majority of buildfarm animals are not on the latest client code
> release. Version 8 was released more than 3 months ago. There are 26
> animals on release 7 and 43 on even older releases, in one case on a
> release going back 4 years. See below for the lists of delinquents.
>
>
> If this situation doesn't improve I'm going to have to reinstitute the
> server filters which will reject very old clients.
>
>
> I do my best to keep things backwards compatible, so that usually an
> upgrade is simply a matter of unpacking the release and you're done. I
> don't think asking people to do that once every few months is terribly
> onerous. It's a five minute job.
>

It's very far from a 5 minute job on ancient Solaris boxes :-(

In my case, I've spent an hour or more trying to get Digest::SHA to
install, and have failed miserably as it fails to compile for me with both
Sun Studio and GCC. In the case of Sun Studio, CPAN seems insistent on
trying to use the compiler in a way that makes it react like the crippled
default compiler on the system, and it ignores variables like CC, and
aliases and so-on, and insists on trying to run "cc" regardless. I'm going
to have to give up for now.

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