Re: PL/perl should fail on configure, not make

On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 10:25:25PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> "Aaron W. Swenson" <titanofold(at)gentoo(dot)org> writes:
> > On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 08:12:56PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> >> Sorry about going off on a theological tangent. The important question
> >> at this point is, can anybody fix the test so it works on Gentoo?
> >> If not we'll have to pull it out, whether or not it would be a good
> >> thing to have on Debian.
>
> > I can give it a go.
>
> Great, thanks!
>
> One thing we can see now that we have a full buildfarm cycle with that
> patch is that two out of the three Gentoo machines in the farm are
> perfectly happy with it --- only okapi doesn't like it. So that raises
> a new set of questions. It seems somewhat likely now that this is a
> local misconfiguration problem on okapi, but unless we can diagnose it
> I still feel that we'll have to drop the configure probe.
>
> Just a moment ago I pushed another change to make configure place the
> -I$perl_archlibexp/CORE switch at the end of CPPFLAGS not the beginning,
> because that's how plperl's makefile does it. I have not got much hope
> that the problem is an include search order issue, but that's the last
> thing I can think to try. I don't see any other plausibly-significant
> differences between what configure is doing and what the makefile is
> doing.
>
> regards, tom lane

Just checked out that change and it works for me. It finds libperl.

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