On Sat, Jul 25, 2015 at 3:27 AM, Andrew Dunstan <and...@dunslane.net> wrote: > > On 07/24/2015 01:27 PM, Heikki Linnakangas wrote: >> >> On 06/25/2015 07:40 AM, Michael Paquier wrote: >>> >>> On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 3:39 PM, Michael Paquier wrote: >>>> >>>> Here is v6, a rebased version on HEAD (79f2b5d). There were some >>>> conflicts with the indentation and some other patches related to >>>> pg_rewind and initdb's tests. >>> >>> >>> Attached is v7, rebased on 0b157a0. >> >> >> Thanks! I fiddled with this a bit more, to centralize more of the >> platform-dependent stuff to RewindTest.pm. Also, Windows doesn't have "cat" >> and "touch" if you haven't installed MinGW, so I replaced those calls with >> built-in perl code. >> >> Can you double-check that the attached still works in your environment? It >> works for me now. >> >> Note: I had some trouble installing IPC::Run on my system, with >> ActiveState Perl and MSVC. There is no PPM package of that for Windows, so I >> had to do "cpan install IPC::Run". That downloaded the MinGW C compiler and >> make utility, which took a while. But some of the IPC::Run regression tests >> failed, and the installation was aborted. I forced my way through that >> "notest install IPC::Run". The next obstacle was that "vcregress <anything>" >> no longer worked. It complained about finding some function in the Install >> module. Turns out that when it installed the C compiler and make utility, it >> also installed a module called "install" from cpan, which has the same name >> as the PostgreSQL Install.pm module. We really should rename our module. I >> got through that by manually removing the system install.pm module from the >> perl installation's site directory. But after that, it worked great :-). >> >> We need to put some instructions in the docs on how to install IPC::Run on >> Windows. I can write up something unless you're eager to. > > > > AFAIK all you need to do is put Run.pm in the right place. It doesn't need > any building, IIRC, and the current version can be got from > <http://cpansearch.perl.org/src/TODDR/IPC-Run-0.94/lib/IPC/Run.pm>
Yeah, that's exactly what I did myself and put it in a path of PERL5LIB, and it just worked. -- Michael -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
