Re: Requiring LLVM 14+ in PostgreSQL 18

On Sun, May 19, 2024 at 10:46 AM Ole Peder Brandtzæg
<olebra@samfundet.no> wrote:
> On Wed, May 15, 2024 at 07:20:09AM +0200, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> > Yes, let's get that v3-0001 patch into PG17.
>
> Upon seeing this get committed in 4dd29b6833, I noticed that the docs
> still advertise the llvm-config-$version search dance. That's still
> correct for Meson-based builds since we use their config-tool machinery,
> but no longer holds for configure-based builds. The attached patch
> updates the docs accordingly.

Oops, right I didn't know we had that documented.  Thanks.  Will hold
off doing anything until the thaw.

Hmm, I also didn't know that Meson had its own list like our just-removed one:

https://github.com/mesonbuild/meson/blob/master/mesonbuild/environment.py#L183

Unsurprisingly, it suffers from maintenance lag, priority issues etc
(new major versions pop out every 6 months):

https://github.com/mesonbuild/meson/issues/10483