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Re: configure --with-uuid=bsd fails on NetBSD

Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>

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From: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Nazir Bilal Yavuz <byavuz81@gmail.com>, pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org
Date: 2022-09-09T22:05:22Z
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Hi,

On 2022-09-09 17:31:40 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Harder for who?  AFAICT there is nobody but me routinely running
> full tests on NetBSD, else we'd have found this problem much earlier.

Bilal's report was caused by automating testing on netbsd (and openbsd) as
well, as part of the meson stuff.  I also occasionally run the tests in a VM.

But as you say:

> I've got my animals configured not to use --with-uuid (not much of
> a lift considering that's the buildfarm's default).  End of problem.

Fair enough.

Greetings,

Andres Freund

Commits

  1. Reject bogus output from uuid_create(3).