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: Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com>

Cc: walther@technowledgy.de, Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>, Christophe Pettus <xof@thebuild.com>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>, PostgreSQL Bugs <pgsql-bugs@lists.postgresql.org>, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>

Date: 2024-03-21T23:30:52Z

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

Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com> writes:
> On Fri, Mar 22, 2024 at 12:02 PM Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>> The previously-suggested patch to whitelist glibc and variants,
>> and otherwise fall back to PS_USE_NONE, seems like it might be
>> the appropriate amount of effort.

> What about meeting musl halfway: clobber argv, but only clobber
> environ for the libcs known to tolerate that?  Then musl might see
> truncation at 30-60 characters or whatever it is, but that's probably
> enough to see your cluster_name and backend type/user name which is
> pretty useful information.

No real objection here.  I do wonder about the point you (or somebody)
made upthread that we don't have any testing of the PS_USE_NONE case;
but that could be addressed some other way.

			regards, tom lane