Re: Regression tests fail with musl libc because libpq.so can't be loaded

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

To: Laurenz Albe <laurenz.albe@cybertec.at>

Cc: Wolfgang Walther <walther@technowledgy.de>, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>, Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com>, peter@eisentraut.org, Christophe Pettus <xof@thebuild.com>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>, PostgreSQL Bugs <pgsql-bugs@lists.postgresql.org>

Date: 2024-03-20T14:36:38Z

Lists: pgsql-bugs, pgsql-hackers

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Allow "make check"-style testing to work with musl C library.
- d82605bcd666 14.12 landed
- 8a92b70c11ba 17.0 landed
- 7651fd387697 16.3 landed
- 7124e7d528a8 12.19 landed
- 3c3f4fd741d0 15.7 landed
- 243e9953281f 13.15 landed
Fix compiler warnings on MSYS2
- 8c6d30f21139 13.0 cited

Laurenz Albe <laurenz.albe@cybertec.at> writes:
> On Wed, 2024-03-20 at 15:24 +0100, Wolfgang Walther wrote:
>> I think you might be seriously underestimating how often musl is used. 
>> Alpine Linux uses musl and is very widespread in the container world 
>> because of smaller image size

> The last time I looked, its collation support didn't work at all...

I think the same is true of some of the BSDen, so that's not a
large impediment to us.  But in any case, if somebody wants
Alpine or musl to be considered a supported platform, they'd
best step up and run a buildfarm animal.

			regards, tom lane