Re: Unbreak plperl building

On Mon, Aug 28, 2000 at 10:00:36AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Alex Kapranoff <alex(at)kapran(dot)bitmcnit(dot)bryansk(dot)su> writes:
> > This patch, when applied in src/pl will unbreak plperl in
> > 7.0.2 release. Sorry, if that's fixed ages ago - I don't track
> > development versions of PostgreSQL.
>
> The issue isn't so much that it's "broken" as that we've seen severe
> portability problems with it --- it doesn't work on all platforms or
> all releases of Perl. What do your proposed changes do for or against
> that issue?

I really don't have many platforms for testing available here. I'll
try FreeBSD 4.1-STABLE and probably 3.5-STABLE. Those come with older
(and currently much more used) perl 5.005. No Linuxen of whatever
else, sorry.

These changes work around some nasty compile-time errors. The author
either had a very weird distribution of perl (home-made?) or
maybe just didn't have time to finish work (which is strange as one
can see from "complexity" of my patch).

Anyway, there aren't so many releases of perl available, really.
5.005 and 5.6.0 are surely the only ones to care about.

I just loved the idea of writing functions in Perl, and it works for
me now. Someone is likely to want it too, so I posted. Thanks for the
wonderful PostreeSQL, folks!

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