On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 02:17:57PM -0700, Alex Hunsaker wrote: > On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 13:07, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: > > Alex Hunsaker <bada...@gmail.com> writes: > >> ! perl_version_error=`$PERL -e 'use 5.00801;' 2>&1` > > > > This is not a path towards an acceptable solution, as it effectively > > assumes what we are setting out to prove, namely that we have found > > a reasonably modern version of perl. Try it in perl 4... > > Well I would if I had it sitting around =). I did try to compile > one... but chickened out as soon as I hit an error: > $ make > `sh cflags perly.o` perly.c > CCCMD = cc -c -O > In file included from perly.y:38: > perl.h:279: error: conflicting types for ‘sys_errlist’ > /usr/include/bits/sys_errlist.h:28: note: previous declaration of > ‘sys_errlist’ was here > In file included from perl.h:540, > from perly.y:38: > arg.h:685:1: warning: "AF_LOCAL" redefined > In file included from /usr/include/sys/socket.h:40, > from /usr/include/netinet/in.h:25, > from perl.h:224, > from perly.y:38: > /usr/include/bits/socket.h:116:1: warning: this is the location of the > previous definition > > > How about something like the below? Basically If we find "This is > perl v4" we bail right then. Otherwise we use the version check I > proposed up-thread? I may have inadvertently used some > bash/gnu-isms... sorry about that. > > *** a/configure > --- b/configure
Edit configure.in, not configure :) Cheers, David. -- David Fetter <da...@fetter.org> http://fetter.org/ Phone: +1 415 235 3778 AIM: dfetter666 Yahoo!: dfetter Skype: davidfetter XMPP: david.fet...@gmail.com iCal: webcal://www.tripit.com/feed/ical/people/david74/tripit.ics Remember to vote! Consider donating to Postgres: http://www.postgresql.org/about/donate -- Sent via pgsql-bugs mailing list (pgsql-bugs@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-bugs