On 3/2/21 3:57 PM, Andres Freund wrote: > >>> This makes it even clearer to me that we really need a builtin >>> testrunner that runs tests efficiently *and* debuggable on windows. >>> >> "show me the code" :-) > The biggest obstacle on that front is perl. I started to write one, but > hit several perl issues within an hour. I think I might write one in > python, that'd be a lot less painful.
Without knowing details I'm skeptical. Over nearly three decades of using perl I have found very little I wanted to do that I could not. > > > One windows build question I have is why the msvc infrastructure doesn't > accept msys perl in places like this: > guid => $^O eq "MSWin32" ? Win32::GuidGen() : > 'FAKE', > If I change them to accept msys perl then the build ends up working. > > The reason it'd be nice to accept msys perl is that git for windows > bundles that - and that's already installed on most CI projects... Nice idea, but we can't run prove under Git's msys perl, because it's missing some stuff, at least on drongo: C:\prog>bin\prove --version C:\prog>"c:\Program Files\Git\usr\bin\perl" "c:\Program Files\Git\usr\bin\core_perl\prove" --version Can't locate TAP/Harness/Env.pm in @INC (you may need to install the TAP::Harness::Env module) (@INC contains: /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl /usr/share/perl5/site_perl /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl /usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl /usr/lib/perl5/core_perl /usr/share/perl5/core_perl) at /usr/share/perl5/core_perl/App/Prove.pm line 6. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/share/perl5/core_perl/App/Prove.pm line 6. Compilation failed in require at c:\Program Files\Git\usr\bin\core_perl\prove line 9. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at c:\Program Files\Git\usr\bin\core_perl\prove line 9. cheers andrew -- Andrew Dunstan EDB: https://www.enterprisedb.com
