From: | "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
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To: | "Jim C(dot) Nasby" <jnasby(at)pervasive(dot)com> |
Cc: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, David Wheeler <david(at)kineticode(dot)com>, josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: Suggestion: Which Binary? |
Date: | 2006-04-10 01:07:58 |
Message-ID: | 4439AFEE.20605@commandprompt.com |
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Jim C. Nasby wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 31, 2006 at 07:01:18PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
>> David Wheeler <david(at)kineticode(dot)com> writes:
>>> Yes, but even the environment variables get me what I want. I
>>> therefore respectfully submit the attached patch to document them in
>>> the INSTALL file.
>> It seems rather pointless to document two instances of what is in fact
>> a generic autoconf-script behavior ...
>
> The problem is that PostgreSQL is moving out of the realm of "hard-core
> geeks only" and more into the mainstream. I'd bet a number of our users
> have very little idea how autoconf and it's progeny work. It's probably
> not unlikely that those folks would be able to figure out where their
> perl was, but then not know how to tell it to configure.
Not to mention that it is very popular to be able to specify a specific
version of a binary/language. Just a couple of projects that allow you
to do it now with a --with type configure statement:
subversion
mod_python
(just about any python module)
Joshua D. Drake
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