Re: plperl needs upgrade for Fedora 10

From: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com>, postgres hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: plperl needs upgrade for Fedora 10
Date: 2008-11-06 16:15:27
Message-ID: 4913181F.7080700@dunslane.net
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Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> Tom Lane escribió:
>
>> Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> writes:
>>
>>> OK, I have got to the bottom of this. It appears that the Fedora people
>>> have for some reason best known to themselves decided to stop bundling
>>> the ExtUtils::Embed module with base perl, as it was before.
>>>
>> That's been true since F-9, so I'm not quite sure why Pavel's build only
>> broke at F-10. FWIW the postgresql Fedora RPMs have
>>
>> BuildRequires: perl(ExtUtils::MakeMaker) glibc-devel bison flex autoconf gawk
>> BuildRequires: perl(ExtUtils::Embed), perl-devel
>>
>> The extra Requires for MakeMaker has been there even longer.
>>
>
> Huh, but the requirement for ExtUtils::Embed is at runtime, so shouldn't
> it be a plain Requires instead of BuildRequires?
>
>

No. We need ExtUtils::Embed to get the linkage flags for the build. See
config/perl.m4

cheers

andrew

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