Re: PL_stashcache, or, what's our minimum Perl version?

On 7/31/17 15:38, Tom Lane wrote:
> Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> writes:
>> One major PITA with the AC_PATH_* checks is that you can only override
>> them with environment variables that are full paths; otherwise the
>> environment variables are ignored. For example, currently, running
>
>> ./configure PYTHON=python3
>
>> will result in the PYTHON setting being ignored.
>
> Really? That seems pretty broken, independently of how many variables
> are affected. But the ones you'd be most likely to do that with are
> using AC_PATH_PROG already, I think. Having lesser-used program variables
> behave inconsistently doesn't seem like much of a win.

Well, if we're fiddling around here, I would change them all to
AC_CHECK_PROG if possible. Especially the PYTHON one annoys me all the
time. CC is another one I set occasionally.

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