Re: building without perl - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: building without perl
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Msg-id 2179.1245728609@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: building without perl  (Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>)
Responses Re: building without perl  (Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>)
Re: building without perl  (Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>)
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Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> writes:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> Actually, further investigation discloses that someone broke the no-Perl
>> defense in psql's makefile back in 8.0, and we hadn't noticed till now.

> Don't we ship sql_help.h in the tarball? I thought that's all the perl 
> was used for in psql.

Yeah, but the makefile protected that with "ifdef PERL", which stopped
failing as intended when someone forced some quotes into the value of
PERL.  I'm about to commit something that hopefully will be a bit more
robust.
        regards, tom lane


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