Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Enable probes to work with Mac OS X Leopard and other OSes that

Andrew Dunstan wrote:
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> Robert Lor wrote:
>> Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>>> Well, yes. I meant to say, a build system that can supply the
>>> functionality of Gen_fmgrtab can surely implement this new thing. I
>>> see there is Perl being used, so it should be simple.
>>>
>> I was thinking of using a Perl script to generate the dummy header
>> file but decided against it to avoid disrupting the build on other
>> platforms. If sed doesn't work on Windows for some reason, we can use
>> a Perl script instead.
>>
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> What we should do in fact is to use psed on Windows to execute the
> script. This is a sed emulator that is part of the standard perl
> install, and will save us the bother of having to maintain two
> generation scripts, or switching from sed to perl. We just need to find
> where to plug that into the Windows build process.

Hadn't heard about that one. Sounds like a good way to do it, if you can
find the correct place for it :-)

//Magnus