| From: | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> |
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| To: | pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Cc: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> |
| Subject: | Re: building without perl |
| Date: | 2009-06-24 15:44:56 |
| Message-ID: | 200906241844.56271.peter_e@gmx.net |
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On Tuesday 23 June 2009 06:43:29 Tom Lane wrote:
> Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> 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, 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 difference if there was a timestamp skew in
the unpacked tarball, or indeed perl was indeed missing.
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