Re: Experimental patch: generating BKI revisited

On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 2:27 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> writes:
>> Tom Lane escribió:
>>> Yeah.  Although the project policy is that we don't require Perl to
>>> build on Unix, there was a bug in the makefiles that made it effectively
>>> required, and nobody noticed for several years.  I don't think it would
>>> be a hard sell to change that policy if we got a significant benefit out
>>> of it.  (Depending on non-core Perl modules is a totally different thing
>>> though.)
>
>> Well, this is a pretty fortunate turn of events.  I had two paragraphs
>> in my original email that I edited out ("... so I'm not going to say
>> more") on how to workaround the lack of Perl.  If we're all OK now on
>> requiring some basic Perl installation then all the better.  I certainly
>> have no trouble with it.
>
> Although actually, we could still keep that policy if Perl is needed to
> build .bki files --- we just have to build those files in distprep and
> ship them as part of tarballs.  It's already the case that you need Perl
> to build from a CVS pull, it's only tarball users who don't need it.

I just said the same thing a few hours ago...

...Robert