Peter Eisentraut <pete...@gmx.net> writes:
>> Yeah, but the makefile protected that with "ifdef PERL", which stopped
>> failing as intended when someone forced some quotes into the value of
>> PERL.  I'm about to commit something that hopefully will be a bit more
>> robust.

> So one would have only seen the difference if there was a timestamp skew in 
> the unpacked tarball, or indeed perl was indeed missing.

Well, the case we're really trying to deal with (as in, fail cleanly on)
is a build from CVS without perl.

                        regards, tom lane

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