Re: [HACKERS] PL_stashcache, or, what's our minimum Perl version? - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

On Sun, Jul 30, 2017 at 12:05:10PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com> writes:
> > On Sun, Jul 30, 2017 at 01:21:28AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> >> I think it'd be a good idea to insist that "prove" be in
> >> the same directory we found "perl" in.
> 
> > Nah; on my machines, I use /usr/bin/perl and ~/sw/cpan/bin/prove.  The latter
> > is built against the former, so there's no particular hazard.
> 
> Well, OK, but I'd still like to tweak configure so that it records
> an absolute path for prove rather than just setting PROVE=prove.
> That way you'd at least be able to tell from the configure log
> whether you are possibly at risk.

That's an improvement.