On Sun, 2013-11-10 at 18:12 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> Perhaps, if we're worried about people keeping perl somewhere other
> than /usr/bin. However, the most likely reason for having a
> /usr/local/bin/perl or whatever is that it's a newer and shinier one
> than what's in /usr/bin. Since we're only interested in bog-standard
> perl, there's no real reason for us to want to pick up the local one.
After the Perl version of duplicate_oids was committed, some non-Windows
build farm member failed because it didn't have perl in /usr/bin. So
that appears to be a real issue.
> The particular application to this case might be: what makes
> you so sure env is in /bin?
I don't have a /bin/env, but the normal invocation is /usr/bin/env
anyway.
