On 7/17/14 3:31 PM, Tom Lane wrote: > My Salesforce colleagues have been complaining that the TAP tests added > in 9.4 don't work terribly well for them. I've been poking at this, > and I believe this is a reasonably complete list of the problems:
Quick followup: > 1. "make [install]check-world" tries to run the TAP tests even when > "prove" was not found by configure. I regard this as a stop-ship issue > for 9.4; "prove" is not part of a basic Perl installation, and even if > it were, we don't require Perl to build from a tarball. I just sent in a proposed patch for that. > 2. Most of the tests fail in "make check" mode, unless you already did > "make install", because of failures to load libpq.so. The right fix for > this seems to be to modify LD_LIBRARY_PATH and friends This was fixed. > 3. Many of the tests depend on Test::More's "subtest" feature, This was changed so it doesn't fail anymore. Discussion is ongoing about whether to keep using that feature, but it's not a fatal error anymore. > 4. IPC::Run isn't installed by default on RHEL, and probably not on other > distros either. If there's a reasonably painless way to remove this > dependency, it'd improve the portability of the tests. This is lower > priority than the previous items, for sure. Same as above. -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
