Peter Eisentraut writes:
>> Yeah, but the makefile protected that with "ifdef PERL", which stopped
>> failing as intended when someone forced some quotes into the value of
>> PERL. I'm about to commit something that hopefully will be a bit more
>> robust.
> So one would have only seen the differ
On Tuesday 23 June 2009 06:43:29 Tom Lane wrote:
> Andrew Dunstan writes:
> > Tom Lane wrote:
> >> Actually, further investigation discloses that someone broke the no-Perl
> >> defense in psql's makefile back in 8.0, and we hadn't noticed till now.
> >
> > Don't we ship sql_help.h in the tarball?
Tom Lane wrote:
Andrew Dunstan writes:
Tom Lane wrote:
Actually, further investigation discloses that someone broke the no-Perl
defense in psql's makefile back in 8.0, and we hadn't noticed till now.
Don't we ship sql_help.h in the tarball? I thought that's all the perl
Andrew Dunstan writes:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> Actually, further investigation discloses that someone broke the no-Perl
>> defense in psql's makefile back in 8.0, and we hadn't noticed till now.
> Don't we ship sql_help.h in the tarball? I thought that's all the perl
> was used for in psql.
Yeah,
Tom Lane wrote:
Actually, further investigation discloses that someone broke the no-Perl
defense in psql's makefile back in 8.0, and we hadn't noticed till now.
So it certainly seems to be the case that nobody associated with the
Postgres project works in a Perl-free environment. Nonetheless,
Robert Haas writes:
> So, is our policy that it's OK to use perl to generate things, as long
> as they are things that are architecture-independent and
> configuration-independent therefore could be pregenerated for the
> release tarball? If so, it seems we might be able to punt
> Gen_fmgrtab.sh
On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 10:12 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> Robert Haas writes:
>> I'm a bit confused as to what we're trying to support.
>
> You are not supposed to need perl to build from a release tarball
> (except on Windows which doesn't have a decent make or shell, so we
> depend on perl instead).
Robert Haas writes:
> I'm a bit confused as to what we're trying to support.
You are not supposed to need perl to build from a release tarball
(except on Windows which doesn't have a decent make or shell, so we
depend on perl instead). You do need it to build from a CVS checkout.
Same story as b
I'm a bit confused as to what we're trying to support. While I was
poking around tonight, I notice that we have both
./src/backend/utils/Gen_fmgrtab.sh and
./src/backend/utils/Gen_fmgrtab.pl, ostensibly because:
# The reason for implementing this functionality twice is that we don't
# require peo
