Re: Build fails for pl/tcl on OpenBSD

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, Robert Hentosh <hentosh(at)io(dot)com>, pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Build fails for pl/tcl on OpenBSD
Date: 2001-05-07 22:08:50
Message-ID: 200105072208.f47M8ok04059@candle.pha.pa.us
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> Yes, we deliberately build the Tcl and Perl interfaces and PL modules
> with those systems' preferred compilers and switches, and have done so
> since PG 7.0 (at least, maybe earlier). IIRC, this was forced by the
> observation that the other way didn't work.
>
> Curious that so many people are complaining of pl/tcl failures now,
> when there were almost no such reports for 7.0. AFAIK, 7.0 should have
> been equally vulnerable. Perhaps someone has just recently started
> distributing Tcl packages containing bogus tclConfig information?

The cause for me was my misconfiguration during a reinstall of tcl 8.0.5.

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