Re: configure fails for perl check on CentOS8

Hello.

At Mon, 21 Oct 2019 08:29:39 -0400, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(dot)dunstan(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote in
>
> On 10/20/19 7:36 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> > Andrew Dunstan <andrew(dot)dunstan(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> writes:
> >> On 10/20/19 1:23 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> >>> The right way to fix it, likely, is to add CFLAGS_SL while performing this
> >>> particular autoconf test, as that would replicate the switches used for
> >>> plperl (and it turns out that adding -fPIC does solve this problem).
> >>> But the configure script doesn't currently know about CFLAGS_SL, so we'd
> >>> have to do some refactoring to approach it that way. Moving that logic
> >>> from the platform-specific Makefiles into configure doesn't seem
> >>> unreasonable, but it would make the patch bigger.
> >> Sounds like a plan. I agree it's annoying to have to do something large
> >> for something so trivial.
> > Turns out it's not really that bad. We just have to transfer the
> > responsibility for setting CFLAGS_SL from the platform Makefiles
> > to the platform template files. (As a bonus, it'd be possible to
> > allow users to override CFLAGS_SL during configure, as they can
> > do for CFLAGS. But I didn't mess with that here.)
> >
> > I checked that this fixes the Fedora build problem, but I've not
> > really tested it on any other platform. Still, there's not that
> > much to go wrong, one would think.
> >
>
> LGTM

However it's done, but it looks good to me and actually the problem is
gone. Thaks!

regards.

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Kyotaro Horiguchi
NTT Open Source Software Center