On Tue, Jun 29, 2021 at 01:53:42AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com> writes:
> > Done. This upset one buildfarm member so far:
> > https://buildfarm.postgresql.org/cgi-bin/show_log.pl?nm=gaur&dt=2021-06-29%2001%3A43%3A14
>
> > I don't know what happened there. Tom, could you post a tar of the
> > src/bin/pg_dump/tmp_check/tmp_test_* directory after a failed "make -C
> > src/bin/pg_dump check" on that machine?
>
> I'm too tired to look at it right now, but remembering that that's
> running an old Perl version, I wonder if there's some Perl
> incompatibility here.
That's at least part of the problem, based on experiments on a machine with
Perl 5.8.4. That machine can't actually build PostgreSQL. I've pushed a
necessary fix, though I'm only about 80% confident about it being sufficient.
