Re: plperl needs upgrade for Fedora 10

From: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, 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 17:56:35
Message-ID: 49132FD3.2010904@dunslane.net
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> writes:
>
>> I'm thinking of something like this change to config/perl.m4:
>>
>
>
>> ! if test -z "$perl_embed_ldflags" ; then
>> ! AC_MSG_RESULT(no)
>> ! AC_MSG_ERROR([unable to determine flags to link embedded Perl])
>>
>
> Hm, is it certain that "empty" is never a valid value for
> $perl_embed_ldflags?

Yes. If it's empty we don't even link against libperl at all. That can't
possibly be right.

> In any case I'm a bit confused how this fixes the
> problem --- it looks like the test is just relying on Config not Embed.
>
>
>

No, we get the ldopts from Embed and then *remove* the ccldflags from
Config from that string. What is left is set as perl_embed_flags, and
that's what mustn't be empty.

cheers

andrew

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