Andres Freund <and...@anarazel.de> writes: > On 2021-10-14 18:08:58 -0400, Tom Lane wrote: >> Andres Freund <and...@anarazel.de> writes: >>> Hm, so it seems we should make the test separately verify that perl >>> -M{Opcode, >>> ExtUtils::Embed, ExtUtils::ParseXS} doesn't fail, so that we can fail perl >>> detection with a useful message?
>> Our existing policy is that we should check this at configure time, >> not later. > Yea, I was thinking of configure (and meson's equivalent) as well. Ah, sorry, I misunderstood what you meant by "test". regards, tom lane