Re: [HACKERS] Time to retire Windows XP buildfarm host?

On Sat, Dec 24, 2016 at 7:48 AM, Alvaro Herrera
<alvherre@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
> Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>
>> ... and miraculously it has fixed itself.
>
> And it failed again today, once.
>
> Today I noticed that it's running gcc 4.5.0.  But for the 4.5 branch,
> the GCC guys put out a few releases before abandoning it, and there are
> some compiler segmentation faults fixed in some of these releases,
> visible here:
>
> https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&resolution=FIXED&target_milestone=4.5.1
> https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&resolution=FIXED&target_milestone=4.5.2
> https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&resolution=FIXED&target_milestone=4.5.3
> https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&resolution=FIXED&target_milestone=4.5.4
>
> I think it'd be worthwhile to upgrade to the latest in that branch.

FWIW, I also saw segmentation faults with MinGW using gcc 4.8.1 in my
environments, after fetching the newest supported by the builds :(
Any configuration on Windows out of MSVC is depressing.
-- 
Michael