| From: | "David E(dot) Wheeler" <david(at)justatheory(dot)com> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, Jim Nasby <Jim(dot)Nasby(at)bluetreble(dot)com>, Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Patch to install config/missing |
| Date: | 2015-11-02 22:46:44 |
| Message-ID: | FA492AB8-D780-411C-AE17-601BE0699CBE@justatheory.com |
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On Nov 2, 2015, at 1:07 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> I wonder how much we need that script at all though. If, say, configure
> doesn't find bison, what's so wrong with just defining BISON=bison and
> letting the usual shell "bison: command not found" error leak through?
+1 This would certainly make it easier for downstream use cases, as well. Was not relishing having to parse the PERL variable to find out if Perl was missing.
David
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