Re: configure fails for perl check on CentOS8

On 10/20/19 7:36 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> Andrew Dunstan <andrew(dot)dunstan(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> writes:
>> On 10/20/19 1:23 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
>>> The right way to fix it, likely, is to add CFLAGS_SL while performing this
>>> particular autoconf test, as that would replicate the switches used for
>>> plperl (and it turns out that adding -fPIC does solve this problem).
>>> But the configure script doesn't currently know about CFLAGS_SL, so we'd
>>> have to do some refactoring to approach it that way. Moving that logic
>>> from the platform-specific Makefiles into configure doesn't seem
>>> unreasonable, but it would make the patch bigger.
>> Sounds like a plan. I agree it's annoying to have to do something large
>> for something so trivial.
> Turns out it's not really that bad. We just have to transfer the
> responsibility for setting CFLAGS_SL from the platform Makefiles
> to the platform template files. (As a bonus, it'd be possible to
> allow users to override CFLAGS_SL during configure, as they can
> do for CFLAGS. But I didn't mess with that here.)
>
> I checked that this fixes the Fedora build problem, but I've not
> really tested it on any other platform. Still, there's not that
> much to go wrong, one would think.
>
>

LGTM

cheers

andrew

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