On Tuesday 23 June 2009 06:43:29 Tom Lane wrote:
Andrew Dunstan and...@dunslane.net writes:
Tom Lane wrote:
Actually, further investigation discloses that someone broke the no-Perl
defense in psql's makefile back in 8.0, and we hadn't noticed till now.
Don't we ship sql_help.h in the
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
I'm a bit confused as to what we're trying to support. While I was
poking around tonight, I notice that we have both
./src/backend/utils/Gen_fmgrtab.sh and
./src/backend/utils/Gen_fmgrtab.pl, ostensibly because:
# The reason for implementing this functionality twice is that we don't
# require
Robert Haas robertmh...@gmail.com writes:
I'm a bit confused as to what we're trying to support.
You are not supposed to need perl to build from a release tarball
(except on Windows which doesn't have a decent make or shell, so we
depend on perl instead). You do need it to build from a CVS
On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 10:12 PM, Tom Lanet...@sss.pgh.pa.us wrote:
Robert Haas robertmh...@gmail.com writes:
I'm a bit confused as to what we're trying to support.
You are not supposed to need perl to build from a release tarball
(except on Windows which doesn't have a decent make or shell,
Robert Haas robertmh...@gmail.com writes:
So, is our policy that it's OK to use perl to generate things, as long
as they are things that are architecture-independent and
configuration-independent therefore could be pregenerated for the
release tarball? If so, it seems we might be able to punt
Tom Lane wrote:
Actually, further investigation discloses that someone broke the no-Perl
defense in psql's makefile back in 8.0, and we hadn't noticed till now.
So it certainly seems to be the case that nobody associated with the
Postgres project works in a Perl-free environment.
Andrew Dunstan and...@dunslane.net writes:
Tom Lane wrote:
Actually, further investigation discloses that someone broke the no-Perl
defense in psql's makefile back in 8.0, and we hadn't noticed till now.
Don't we ship sql_help.h in the tarball? I thought that's all the perl
was used for in
Tom Lane wrote:
Andrew Dunstan and...@dunslane.net writes:
Tom Lane wrote:
Actually, further investigation discloses that someone broke the no-Perl
defense in psql's makefile back in 8.0, and we hadn't noticed till now.
Don't we ship sql_help.h in the tarball? I thought
