On Tue, May 30, 2006 at 11:35:12AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
FWIW, it looks like a large part of the bloat in the newer file is
in-line documentation, which we hardly need to include in our
distribution. I'll leave it to someone more familiar with Perl to
determine whether we want to try to use
Hi,
On Tue, 2006-05-30 at 08:29 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
ppport.h is throwing warnings when compiling on Fedora Core 5
(with perl-5.8.8-4). I gather from the comments in the head
of that file that we ought to look for a newer version.
I've informed Andrew about this, he sent me a patch a few
Martijn van Oosterhout wrote:
On Tue, May 30, 2006 at 11:35:12AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
FWIW, it looks like a large part of the bloat in the newer file is
in-line documentation, which we hardly need to include in our
distribution. I'll leave it to someone more familiar with Perl to
ppport.h is throwing warnings when compiling on Fedora Core 5
(with perl-5.8.8-4). I gather from the comments in the head
of that file that we ought to look for a newer version.
regards, tom lane
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Tom Lane wrote:
ppport.h is throwing warnings when compiling on Fedora Core 5
(with perl-5.8.8-4). I gather from the comments in the head
of that file that we ought to look for a newer version.
I don't currently have an FC5 box to test with. Here's what to try: move
the ppport.h aside,
Andrew Dunstan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I don't currently have an FC5 box to test with. Here's what to try: move
the ppport.h aside, and in the plperl directory run this command to
generate a replacement:
perl -MDevel::PPPort -e 'Devel::PPPort::WriteFile();'
and then recompile.
Hm.
Andrew Dunstan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Tom Lane wrote:
Hm. It compiles without warnings, but the new ppport.h is about 100K
larger than the old one :-(. The change we seem to actually need is
just to put #ifndef PERL_UNUSED_DECL around the attempted declaration
of that macro, so I'm
Andrew Dunstan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
It is, but this misses the point. You want to use the latest ppport.h
even when building with earlier perls.
Doh, of course. Well, for the moment I'll just put in the #ifndef.
FWIW, it looks like a large part of the bloat in the newer file is
in-line
