On Tue, 2013-01-08 at 22:37 -0500, Tom Lane wrote: > We could try adding an AC_TRY_LINK test using perl_embed_ldflags, > but given the weird stuff happening to redefine that value on Windows > in plperl/GNUmakefile I think there's a serious risk of breaking > Cygwin builds. Since I lack access to either Cygwin or a platform on > which there's a problem today, I'm not going to be the one to mess > with it.
For these and similar reasons, I think it's best not to mess with this too much. It should fail where it actually fails. We shouldn't be duplicating that logic in a remote place to predict that something will fail later. In some cases, this is rather safe and easy and useful as a service to the user, but once it gets slightly complicated, it can only go wrong. -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
