Andrew Dunstan wrote:
I think we need to float a bug upstream to the perl guys on this, but as a holding position I suggest that we alter the #ifdef test to avoid calling PERL_SYS_INIT3() where MYMALLOC is defined. It's ugly, but I can't think of another simple way around it (and we've done worse things to accommodate platform weirdness ;-) )
It turns out that this doesn't work on Cygwin with its latest Perl (which has MYMALLOC defined). If we call PERL_SYS_INIT3() it fails in that call, and if we don't call it it fails later. We haven't noticed it earlier because my Cygwin buildfarm member's Perl is a couple of years old. I guess we're lucky that it's not a more critical platform, but there is no guarantee that this is the only place it will fail, now or in the future. I will see about following up more energetically with the Perl people.
The workaround on Cygwin is to downgrade the perl installation to 5.8.8. cheers andrew -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
