Re: pl/perl extension fails on Windows

On 07/12/2017 11:49 AM, Dave Page wrote:
>
>
> On Wed, Jul 12, 2017 at 4:35 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us
> <mailto:tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>> wrote:
>
> Sandeep Thakkar <sandeep(dot)thakkar(at)enterprisedb(dot)com
> <mailto:sandeep(dot)thakkar(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>> writes:
> > I compiled PG 10 beta1/beta2 with "--with-perl" option on
> Windows and the
> > extension crashes the database.
> > *src/pl/plperl/Util.c: loadable library and perl binaries are
> mismatched
> > (got handshake key 0A900080, needed 0AC80080)*
>
> > This is seen with Perl 5.24 but not with 5.20, 5.16. What I
> found is that
> > the handshake function is added in Perl 5.21.x and probably that
> is why we
> > don't see this issue in earlier versions.
>
> Well, we have various buildfarm machines running perls newer than
> that,
> eg, crake, with 5.24.1. So I'd say there is something busted
> about your
> perl installation. Perhaps leftover bits of an older version
> somewhere?
>
>
> Well crake is a Fedora box - and we have no problems on Linux, only on
> Windows.
>
>

Yeah, I have this on one of my Windows boxes, and haven't had time to
get to the bottom of it yet ;-(

Latest versions of ActivePerl don't ship with library descriptor files,
either, which is unpleasant.

cheers

andrew

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