| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Craig Ringer <craig(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> |
| Cc: | PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: configure's checks for --enable-tap-tests are insufficient |
| Date: | 2018-03-20 02:40:02 |
| Message-ID: | 8906.1521513602@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Craig Ringer <craig(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> writes:
> On 19 March 2018 at 23:56, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>> ... much excavation finds a complaint about Time::HiRes not being installed
> That's absurd. Time::HiRes is a core module, as is Test::More. Sigh.
> Yes, looks like tests are necessary. I'd argue it's "test for broken Perl"
> but apparently Fedora think they should split the Perl core dist into tiny
> pieces.
FWIW, the package boundaries are the same on RHEL6, and probably long
before that. It's possible that Red Hat have trimmed back which packages
they consider part of a basic Perl installation. I don't have any data
on whether that's moved over time, but it wouldn't surprise me given
the long-term shifts in Fedora's orientation.
regards, tom lane
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