Andrew Dunstan <and...@dunslane.net> writes: > On 01/09/2013 10:16 AM, Tom Lane wrote: >> Actually, if we were to try to clean this up, I'd suggest moving that >> logic into the configure script --- it's not apparent to me why it's >> a good idea to be changing configure-determined values in the Makefile. >> But in any case this would have to be done by somebody who's in a >> position to test on affected platforms.
> Here's a patch which does that and produces configure traces like this > on Mingw: > checking for Perl archlibexp... C:/Perl/lib > checking for Perl privlibexp... C:/Perl/lib > checking for Perl useshrplib... true > checking for flags to link embedded Perl... -LC:/Perl/lib/CORE -lperl512 > which seems to be what we want. > Given that, you should be able to write a reasonably portable configure > test for library presence. Looks good. If you're happy with that then I can undertake to add a libperl.so probe based on AC_TRY_LINK with the unmodified value of $perl_embed_ldflags. regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers