Re: improving PL/Python builds on OS X

On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 5:34 PM, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> wrote:
> On 5/8/13 11:51 AM, Dave Page wrote:
>> This patch seems to have broken the build for our installers for 9.3.
>> Because we need a consistent build of the PL interpretors on all the
>> platforms we support, we use the ActiveState distributions of Perl,
>> Python and TCL (we can't rely on vendor supplied packages, because
>> their versions vary between different Linux distros and different OS X
>> versions). However, ActivePython doesn't include a shared library,
>> which this change seems to require.
>>
>> Can that requirement be reverted?
>
> There was no change in this regard. A shared library was always
> required on OS X.

It's failing on Linux. Even worse, it configures fine and then builds
without error. There is a message spewed out by configure, but it
doesn't contain the words warning or error. Given that I explicitly
said I wanted Python support when I ran configure, it should certainly
fail with an error at configure time. We only noticed this was a
problem when the QA guys started diving in to more detailed tested, as
we don't watch for every message in the 50+ MB of logs our automated
build systems generate.

> ActivePython does include a shared library. I just tried it and it
> builds fine.

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