Re: Is a modern build system acceptable for older platforms

I'd like to add my 2c that, as a user who has to support postgres running
on some fairly old systems, changing to a modern build mechanism (with all
the resultant dependency hell that it would likely introduce) would be
likely to cause me much grief.

At the moment I can still log in to the old RH Shrike box I keep
specifically for building for older systems (it does admittedly have a more
recent gcc, but even building that was a trial) and build Postgres from
source. Unless I've misunderstood I strongly doubt that would still be the
case with the changes being discussed here.

Geoff

On Tue, 1 May 2018 at 17:19, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:

> On Fri, Apr 27, 2018 at 5:46 AM, Hartmut Holzgraefe
> <hartmut(dot)holzgraefe(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> > I could probably continue with this brain dump forever, ...
>
> I found your brain dump an interesting read, and I have to say that it
> leaves me rather uninspired about making a change. It sounds to me
> like if we change, some things will be better and others will not be
> as good. The good news is that if we decide to change, it sounds like
> we won't be a lot worse off than we are today. The bad news is that
> it doesn't sound like we'll be a lot better off, either.
>
> --
> Robert Haas
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