I wrote: > Anyway, it seems like there's some consensus that 9.2 is a good > stopping place for today. I'll push forward with > (1) back-patching as necessary to make 9.2 and up build cleanly > on the platforms I have handy;
I've done as much as I plan to do in that direction. As of the respective branch tips, I see clean builds and check-world results with minimal configure options in all branches back to 9.2 on Fedora 35 (gcc 11.2.1) and macOS Monterey (Apple clang 13.0.0). A few notes for the archives' sake: * As discussed, parallel check-world is unreliable before v10; perhaps this is worth improving, but I doubt it. I did find that aggressive parallelism in the build process is fine. * On some compilers, pre-v10 branches produce this warning: scan.c: In function 'yy_try_NUL_trans': scan.c:10189:23: warning: unused variable 'yyg' [-Wunused-variable] struct yyguts_t * yyg = (struct yyguts_t*)yyscanner; /* This var may be unused depending upon options. */ In principle we could back-patch 65d508fd4 to silence that, but I think that fix is more invasive than what we want to do in these branches. We lived with that warning for years before figuring out how to get rid of it, so I think we can continue to accept it in these branches. * 9.2's plperl fails to compile on macOS: ./plperl.h:53:10: fatal error: 'EXTERN.h' file not found #include "EXTERN.h" This is evidently because 9.2 predates the "sysroot" hacking we did later (5e2217131 and many many subsequent tweaks). I judge this not worth the trouble to fix, because the argument for supporting --with-perl in these branches is basically that we need a PL with transforms to test pg_dump ... but transforms didn't come in until 9.5. (Reviewing the commit log, I suppose that 9.3 and 9.4 would also fail to build in some macOS configurations, but by the same argument I see no need to work further on those branches either. 9.5 does have all the sysroot changes I can find in the log.) regards, tom lane