Re: PL/perl should fail on configure, not make

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Tim Bunce <Tim(dot)Bunce(at)pobox(dot)com>
Subject: Re: PL/perl should fail on configure, not make
Date: 2013-01-10 22:06:01
Message-ID: 50EF3B49.4000406@gmx.net
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On 1/10/13 4:48 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> Well, I'm not the package maintainer for perl, so this is not an
> authoritative answer ... but I don't believe that there's any
> expectation that you could replace the installation with a different
> major perl version and still have C-level dependencies work.

Well, Debian does support that. It is necessary to be able to upgrade
to the next distribution release and have old packages linked against an
older libperl keep working. Apparently, Fedora doesn't support that.

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