RE: AIX support

Srirama Kucherlapati <sriram.rk@in.ibm.com>

From: Srirama Kucherlapati <sriram.rk@in.ibm.com>

To: Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka@iki.fi>, "pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org" <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>, "postgres-ibm-aix@wwpdl.vnet.ibm.com" <postgres-ibm-aix@wwpdl.vnet.ibm.com>

Cc: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>, Laurenz Albe <laurenz.albe@cybertec.at>, Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com>, Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>, Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>, Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com>, "tvk1271@gmail.com" <tvk1271@gmail.com>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Tristan Partin <tristan@neon.tech>

Date: 2025-02-07T16:50:30Z

Lists: pgsql-hackers

Hi Team,
A few updates regarding the meson build.

We have successfully resolved issues with the meson build on AIX, allowing the meson configure and build to succeed.
A problem was addressed in the meson script wrt AIX (to build a nested shared libraries), specifically in the symbolextractor.py file. The fix has been implemented and will be submitted to the meson community.

https://github.com/mesonbuild/meson/blob/07f595fa98087352940121c87ba9aca0ebc95996/mesonbuild/scripts/symbolextractor.py#L4

Currently, we are verifying the test results.


Warm regards,
Sriram.