On 2/17/22 13:10, Andres Freund wrote:
> On 2022-02-17 13:08:01 -0500, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>>>> perhaps something like:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> my $msystem = $ENV{MSYSTEM} || 'undef';
>>>>
>>>> die "incompatible perl" if $Config{osname} eq 'msys' && $msystem ne
>>>> 'MSYS';
>>> Why tests MSYSTEM instead of $host_os?
>> Is that available in check_modules.pl? AFAICT it's an unexported shell
>> variable.
> No, but it could just be passed to it?
Sure, that could be done, but what's the issue? Msys2 normally defines
MSYSTEM for you - see /etc/msystem which is sourced by /etc/profile.
> Or the test just implemented in
> configure, as I suggested.
>
No, because we don't know which perl will be invoked by $PROVE. That's
why we set up check_modules.pl in the first place.
cheers
andrew
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