On Mon, Oct 10, 2016 at 9:52 PM, Greg Stark <st...@mit.edu> wrote: > > The code is here: > > https://github.com/gsstark/retropg > > The build script is called "makeall" and it applies patches from the > "old-postgres-fixes" directory though some of the smarts are in the > script because it knows about how to run older version of the > configure script and it tries to fix up the ecpg parser duplcate > tokens separately. It saves a diff after applying the patches and > other fixups into the "net-diffs" directory but I've never checked if > those diffs would work cleanly on their own.
Fwiw I was considering proposing committing some patches for these old releases to make them easier to build. I would suggest creating a tag for a for this stable legacy version and limiting the commits to just: 1) Disabling warnings 2) Fixing bugs in the configure scripts that occur on more recent systems (version number parsing etc) 3) Backporting things like the variable-length array code that prevents building 4) Adding compiler options like -fwrapv -- greg -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
