Re: [HACKERS] perl interface bug?

From: Brook Milligan <brook(at)trillium(dot)NMSU(dot)Edu>
To: maillist(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us
Cc: tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us, E(dot)Mergl(at)bawue(dot)de, hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] perl interface bug?
Date: 1998-10-15 21:23:55
Message-ID: 199810152123.PAA14550@trillium.nmsu.edu
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This patch does not apply properly. Please resubmit.

Sorry. Here is a set that works against my copy of the BETA2
tarball. Hope that works now.

Cheers,
Brook

===========================================================================
--- interfaces/perl5/Makefile.PL.orig Mon Sep 28 01:00:21 1998
+++ interfaces/perl5/Makefile.PL Thu Oct 15 12:55:19 1998
@@ -10,29 +10,25 @@
use Config;
use strict;

-# because the perl5 interface is always contained in the source tree,
-# we can be sure about the location of the include files and libs.
-# For development and testing we still test for POSTGRES_HOME.
-#
-#print "\nConfiguring Pg\n";
-#print "Remember to actually read the README file !\n";
-#die "\nYou didn't read the README file !\n" unless ($] >= 5.002);
-#
-#if (! $ENV{POSTGRES_HOME}) {
-# warn "\$POSTGRES_HOME not defined. Searching for PostgreSQL...\n";
-# foreach(qw(../../../ /usr/local/pgsql /usr/pgsql /home/pgsql /opt/pgsql /usr/local/postgres /usr/postgres /home/postgres /opt/postgres)) {
-# if (-d "$_/lib") {
-# $ENV{POSTGRES_HOME} = $_;
-# last;
-# }
-# }
-#}
-#
-#if (-d "$ENV{POSTGRES_HOME}/lib") {
-# print "Found PostgreSQL in $ENV{POSTGRES_HOME}\n";
-#} else {
-# die "Unable to determine PostgreSQL\n";
-#}
+# This Makefile.PL is intended for standalone use when PostgreSQL is
+# already installed. In that case, install the perl module as follows:
+#
+# setenv POSTGRES_HOME /path/to/root/of/installed/postgres
+# perl Makefile.PL
+# make
+# make test
+# make install
+
+# During normal installation of PostgreSQL, this file will be replaced
+# by one derived from Makefile.PL.in so that the installed shared
+# library libpq.so will be found during installation of this module.
+# As a result, the POSTGRES_HOME environment variable need not be set
+# during PostgreSQL installation. Note that ../Makefile takes care of
+# the `perl Makefile.PL' command. Note also that it is still possible
+# to follow the standalone installation procedure, even after
+# configuring and installing PostgreSQL, because the `else'
+# conditional branch below is identical in both Makefile.PL and
+# Makefile.PL.in.

my %opts;

@@ -41,14 +37,17 @@
my $cwd = `pwd`;
chop $cwd;

- %opts = (
- NAME => 'Pg',
- VERSION_FROM => 'Pg.pm',
- INC => "-I$cwd/../libpq -I$cwd/../../include",
- OBJECT => "Pg\$(OBJ_EXT)",
- LIBS => ["-L$cwd/../libpq -lpq"],
- );
+ print "To install the perl interface for PostgreSQL do the following:\n";
+ print " - install PostgreSQL\n";
+ print " - set the POSTGRES_HOME environment variable appropriately\n";
+ print " - in this directory ($cwd):\n";
+ print " perl Makefile.PL\n";
+ print " make\n";
+ print " make test [ with a postmaster running ]\n";
+ print " make install\n";

+ exit(1);
+
} else {

%opts = (
===========================================================================
--- interfaces/perl5/Makefile.PL.in.orig Thu Oct 15 11:09:15 1998
+++ interfaces/perl5/Makefile.PL.in Thu Oct 15 11:57:17 1998
@@ -0,0 +1,44 @@
+#-------------------------------------------------------
+#
+# $Id: Makefile.PL,v 1.9 1998/09/27 19:12:21 mergl Exp $
+#
+# Copyright (c) 1997, 1998 Edmund Mergl
+#
+#-------------------------------------------------------
+
+use ExtUtils::MakeMaker;
+use Config;
+use strict;
+
+my %opts;
+
+if (! $ENV{POSTGRES_HOME}) {
+
+ my $cwd = `pwd`;
+ chop $cwd;
+
+ %opts = (
+ NAME => 'Pg',
+ VERSION_FROM => 'Pg.pm',
+ INC => "-I$cwd/../libpq -I$cwd/../../include",
+ OBJECT => "Pg\$(OBJ_EXT)",
+ LIBS => ["-L(at)prefix@/lib -L$cwd/../libpq -lpq"],
+ );
+
+} else {
+
+ %opts = (
+ NAME => 'Pg',
+ VERSION_FROM => 'Pg.pm',
+ INC => "-I$ENV{POSTGRES_HOME}/include",
+ OBJECT => "Pg\$(OBJ_EXT)",
+ LIBS => ["-L$ENV{POSTGRES_HOME}/lib -lpq"],
+ );
+}
+
+
+WriteMakefile(%opts);
+
+exit(0);
+
+# end of Makefile.PL
===========================================================================
--- interfaces/Makefile.orig Wed Oct 7 01:00:23 1998
+++ interfaces/Makefile Tue Oct 13 16:29:16 1998
@@ -15,13 +15,11 @@
include $(SRCDIR)/Makefile.global


-perl-makefile-dep :=
-ifeq ($(USE_PERL), true)
- perl-makefile-dep := perl5/Makefile
-endif
+PERL_CLEAN := DO_NOTHING
+install: PERL_CLEAN := clean


-.DEFAULT all install clean dep depend distclean: $(perl-makefile-dep)
+.DEFAULT all install clean dep depend distclean:
$(MAKE) -C libpq $@
$(MAKE) -C ecpg $@
ifeq ($(HAVE_Cplusplus), true)
@@ -33,6 +31,8 @@
$(MAKE) -C libpgtcl $@
endif
ifeq ($(USE_PERL), true)
+ -$(MAKE) -C perl5 $(PERL_CLEAN)
+ $(MAKE) perl5/Makefile
$(MAKE) -C perl5 $@
endif
ifeq ($(USE_ODBC), true)
===========================================================================
--- configure.in.orig Thu Oct 15 01:00:20 1998
+++ configure.in Thu Oct 15 11:54:09 1998
@@ -266,17 +266,6 @@
[ USE_PERL=false; AC_MSG_RESULT(disabled) ]
)

-#dnl Verify that postgres is already installed
-#dnl per instructions for perl interface installation
-if test "$USE_PERL" = "true"
-then
- if test "$WHOAMI" != "root"
- then AC_MSG_WARN(perl support disabled; must be root to install)
- USE_PERL=
- fi
-fi
-export USE_PERL
-
dnl We include odbc support unless we disable it with --with-odbc=false
AC_MSG_CHECKING(setting USE_ODBC)
AC_ARG_WITH(
@@ -917,6 +906,7 @@
interfaces/libpgtcl/Makefile
interfaces/odbc/GNUmakefile
interfaces/odbc/Makefile.global
+ interfaces/perl5/Makefile.PL
pl/plpgsql/src/Makefile
pl/plpgsql/src/mklang.sql
pl/tcl/mkMakefile.tcldefs.sh

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