Re: pgxs/config/missing is... missing

From: "David E(dot) Wheeler" <david(at)justatheory(dot)com>
To: Jim Nasby <Jim(dot)Nasby(at)BlueTreble(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-general <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: pgxs/config/missing is... missing
Date: 2015-10-29 22:31:10
Message-ID: AC163A45-06DE-4EA2-9F16-ECE1EF3B04BA@justatheory.com
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On Oct 28, 2015, at 10:54 AM, Jim Nasby <Jim(dot)Nasby(at)BlueTreble(dot)com> wrote:

> I indeed get
>
> PERL = /bin/sh /usr/local/lib/postgresql/pgxs/src/makefiles/../../config/missing perl

Ew.

> even after explicitly exporting PERL=/usr/local/bin/perl

Hrm. I have this code in the pgTAP Makefile:

ifndef PERL
PERL := $(shell which perl)
endif

Could that be causing the problem?

> I see that there is a config/missing script in source, and that Makefile.global.in references it:
>
>> src/Makefile.global.in:missing = $(SHELL) $(top_srcdir)/config/missing
>
> Any ideas why it's not being installed, or why the PGXS Makefile is ignoring/over-riding $PERL?

That I surely don’t know. :-(

Best,

David

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