Re: Perl 5.6.0

From: Olivier PRENANT <ohp(at)pyrenet(dot)fr>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Trond Eivind Glomsrød <teg(at)redhat(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org
Subject: Re: Perl 5.6.0
Date: 2000-05-28 17:01:57
Message-ID: Pine.UW2.4.21.0005281900420.17615-100000@server.pyrenet.fr
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Thanks to all who replied to my mail.

Now that I switched to 7.0, you were right it works...

Again, thank you al

Regards
On Wed, 24 May 2000, Tom Lane wrote:

> teg(at)redhat(dot)com (Trond Eivind=?iso-8859-1?q?_Glomsr=F8d?=) writes:
> > Olivier PRENANT <ohp(at)pyrenet(dot)fr> writes:
> >> It fails because the perl symbols sv-undef and na have been renamed to
> >> PL_sv_undef and PL_na;
>
> > FWIW, the postgresql in Red Hat Rawhide is built with perl 5.6.0
> > and didn't need any patches to make it build.
>
> The stopgap solution is to say
> perl Makefile.PL POLLUTE=1
> (in the interfaces/perl5 directory) and then build as usual. This
> should happen automatically if you are using Postgres 7.0, but you
> could do it manually if you have an older release.
>
> There is a cleaner long-term solution but it involves more work...
>
> regards, tom lane
>

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