Re: Compiling on HP-UX 10.20 fails

Tom Lane wrote:
> "Merlin Moncure" <mmoncure@gmail.com> writes:
>   
>> On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 12:41 AM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>>     
>>> I've always assumed that the userland thread support in 10.20 is too
>>> broken to be worth troubling with.
>>>       
>
>   
>> Using GNU Pth 2.07 on hpux 10.20 all tests provided with the library
>> pass when built via gcc 2.95.3.  hpux is definitely a capricious
>> platform on a lot of levels, but Andrew's patch does technically fix
>> the build.  PostgreSQL's threading tests pass as well.  The
>> alternative is to have configure error out if threading is requested
>> for this platform.
>>     
>
> Configure already does error out if threading is requested for this
> platform ;-).  The question in my mind is if we want to take any
> additional trouble for an OS version long out of support by its maker.
> I'd vote not, even though I still use it ...
>
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>   

No. It's been out of support for more than 5 years, and was released 
about the time that RedHat 4.0 was current. We shouldn't be wasting time 
on dinosaurs.

cheers

andrew