Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Replace duplicate_oids with Perl implementation

From: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Peter Geoghegan <pg(at)heroku(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Replace duplicate_oids with Perl implementation
Date: 2013-11-13 02:30:19
Message-ID: 5282E43B.2010609@dunslane.net
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On 11/12/2013 09:01 PM, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> On Sun, 2013-11-10 at 18:12 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
>> Perhaps, if we're worried about people keeping perl somewhere other
>> than /usr/bin. However, the most likely reason for having a
>> /usr/local/bin/perl or whatever is that it's a newer and shinier one
>> than what's in /usr/bin. Since we're only interested in bog-standard
>> perl, there's no real reason for us to want to pick up the local one.
> After the Perl version of duplicate_oids was committed, some non-Windows
> build farm member failed because it didn't have perl in /usr/bin. So
> that appears to be a real issue.

As Robert pointed out, The build process should be, and now is, invoking
it via $(PERL), so how is this still an issue?

cheers

andrew

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