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

Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>

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From: Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>
To: Wolfgang Walther <walther@technowledgy.de>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>, Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com>, Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>, Christophe Pettus <xof@thebuild.com>, PostgreSQL Bugs <pgsql-bugs@lists.postgresql.org>, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
Date: 2024-03-22T12:10:27Z
Lists: pgsql-bugs, pgsql-hackers

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  1. Allow "make check"-style testing to work with musl C library.

  2. Fix compiler warnings on MSYS2

On Fri, Mar 22, 2024 at 4:02 AM Wolfgang Walther <walther@technowledgy.de>
wrote:

> Andrew Dunstan:
> >> On Mar 22, 2024, at 4:45 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> >> How was it passing?  The issue discussed in this thread has surely
> >> been there for a long time, and Wolfgang mentioned that he sees
> >> others.
> >
> > The buildfarm client has a switch that delays running regression tests
> until after the install stages.
>
> Hm. So while that switch makes the animal pass the build, it did hide
> exactly this problem. Not sure whether this switch should be used at
> all, then. Was this switch only implemented for the specific case of
> Alpine/musl or is there a different reason for it, as well?
>

Alpine was the main motivation, but it's also probably useful on Macs with
SIP enabled.

ISTR raising the Alpine issue back then (2018) but I can't find a reference
now.

cheers

andrew