Re: building without perl

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
Subject: Re: building without perl
Date: 2009-06-24 23:34:34
Message-ID: 6766.1245886474@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> writes:
>> Yeah, but the makefile protected that with "ifdef PERL", which stopped
>> failing as intended when someone forced some quotes into the value of
>> PERL. I'm about to commit something that hopefully will be a bit more
>> robust.

> So one would have only seen the difference if there was a timestamp skew in
> the unpacked tarball, or indeed perl was indeed missing.

Well, the case we're really trying to deal with (as in, fail cleanly on)
is a build from CVS without perl.

regards, tom lane

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