Re: buildfarm's typedefs list has gone completely nutso

On 7/10/19 1:34 PM, Andres Freund wrote:
>
> Hm, it has gotten gcc-9 installed recently, but calliphoridae isn't
> using that. So it's probably not the compiler side. But I also see a
> binutils upgrade:
>
> 2019-07-08 06:22:48 upgrade binutils-multiarch:amd64 2.31.1-16 2.32.51.20190707-1
>
> and corresponding upgrades forall the arch specific packages. I suspect
> it might be that.
>
> I can't immediately reproduce that locally though, using the same
> version of binutils. It's somewhat annoying that the buildfarm uses a
> different form of computing the typedefs than src/tools/find_typedef ...
>


That script is notably non-portable, and hasn't seen any significant
update in a decade.


If you want to run something like the buildfarm code, see
<https://adpgtech.blogspot.com/2015/05/running-pgindent-on-non-core-code-or.html>
for some clues


I ran the client on a new Fedora 30 and it didn't produce the error.


cheers


andrew