Re: Why do we use Tcl's compiler and flags?

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
Cc: PostgreSQL Development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Why do we use Tcl's compiler and flags?
Date: 2001-05-13 15:03:54
Message-ID: 3279.989766234@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> writes:
> Tom Lane writes:
>> Why are you concerned about fixing something that's
>> not especially broken?

> It *is* especially broken if the compiler referenced by TCL_CC does not
> exist on the system.

Um. Good point... although I'd still say such an installation is
broken, since it'll preclude building most available Tcl extension
packages. But we have gotten a lot of reports like that, so it
seems worth working around the problem.

regards, tom lane

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