Received: from malur.postgresql.org ([217.196.149.56]) by arkaria.postgresql.org with esmtps (TLS1.3:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1pQLoI-0005El-LW for pgsql-hackers@arkaria.postgresql.org; Fri, 10 Feb 2023 05:18:58 +0000 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=malur.postgresql.org) by malur.postgresql.org with esmtp (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1pQLoH-0008Kj-GP for pgsql-hackers@arkaria.postgresql.org; Fri, 10 Feb 2023 05:18:57 +0000 Received: from magus.postgresql.org ([2a02:c0:301:0:ffff::29]) by malur.postgresql.org with esmtps (TLS1.3:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1pQLoH-0008J2-6q for pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org; Fri, 10 Feb 2023 05:18:57 +0000 Received: from sss.pgh.pa.us ([66.207.139.130]) by magus.postgresql.org with esmtps (TLS1.3:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1pQLo9-0006MB-L4 for pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org; Fri, 10 Feb 2023 05:18:55 +0000 Received: from sss1.sss.pgh.pa.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by sss.pgh.pa.us (8.15.2/8.15.2) with ESMTP id 31A5IjSx4017261; Fri, 10 Feb 2023 00:18:45 -0500 From: Tom Lane To: Andres Freund cc: Aleksander Alekseev , PostgreSQL Hackers , Peter Eisentraut Subject: Re: =?US-ASCII?Q?Re=3A_MacOS=3A_xsltproc_fails_with_=22warn?= =?US-ASCII?Q?ing=3A_failed_to_load_external_entity=22?= In-reply-to: <841BA01F-2912-4AB6-86ED-7303A1EA4E17@anarazel.de> References: <1234349.1675196522@sss.pgh.pa.us> <1275436.1675209271@sss.pgh.pa.us> <20230201002206.zmilf5zlwhz2ahow@alap3.anarazel.de> <20230201103204.ddqqjbuxe5e2jct2@alap3.anarazel.de> <1383731.1675272207@sss.pgh.pa.us> <20230201174900.n7aa35mgwwdtkxum@alap3.anarazel.de> <20230201190428.m2syfhxxhyjx6vpl@alap3.anarazel.de> <1404694.1675279219@sss.pgh.pa.us> <20230206005207.djeq3322p4focdxo@alap3.anarazel.de> <20230210044107.65vnegtm6ean2ij5@awork3.anarazel.de> <4012159.1676004320@sss.pgh.pa.us> <841BA01F-2912-4AB6-86ED-7303A1EA4E17@anarazel.de> Comments: In-reply-to Andres Freund message dated "Thu, 09 Feb 2023 21:13:16 -0800" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-ID: <4017259.1676006325.1@sss.pgh.pa.us> Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2023 00:18:45 -0500 Message-ID: <4017260.1676006325@sss.pgh.pa.us> List-Id: List-Help: List-Subscribe: List-Post: List-Owner: List-Archive: Archived-At: Precedence: bulk Andres Freund writes: > On February 9, 2023 8:45:20 PM PST, Tom Lane wrote: >> Yeah. Well, we were intending to maintain the autoconf build system fo= r >> several years more anyway. Guess we have to plan on keeping it going >> until those platforms are EOL or nearly so. > Both could be supported with a bit of effort, fwiw. I don't know if it's= worth doing so though... = It's probably not the highest-priority thing to be hacking on, on the whole. If we get to the point where we're itching to drop autoconf and old-platform compatibility is the last thing holding us back, maybe have a go at it then. regards, tom lane