Re: Perl 5.26 and windows build system

Hi
On Wed, Oct 17, 2018 at 2:08 PM Victor Wagner <vitus(at)wagner(dot)pp(dot)ru> wrote:

> Colleagues,
>
> Since Active State stopped to distribute perl 5.22, we decided to
> upgrade installer builds to most use recent version available
> (5.26.1.2601 now).
>
> But upstream perl changes policy around this version and no longer
> adds current directory to the module search path.
>
> This doesn't break work of build.pl, which allready handles module
> search path itself, but breaks install.pl, mkvcbuild.pl and
> vcregress.pl, which
> expect to be started from src/tools/msvc.
>
> Simple adding
>
> use lib ".";
>
> to the beginning of these script solves problem.
>
> BTW, have anyone experienced some success using Strawberry perl instead
> of Active perl both for building postgres and as PL/Perl engine?
>
> We observed the same issue with Strawberry Perl 5.26. We use 5.24 to
execute the build.pl.

> Active State seems to abandon support for 32-bit windows and strawberry
> perl license allows redistribution.
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