Re: how to handle missing "prove" - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: how to handle missing "prove"
Date
Msg-id 32590.1414946181@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: how to handle missing "prove"  (Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>)
Responses Re: how to handle missing "prove"  (Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>)
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Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> writes:
> On 10/30/14 9:09 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
>> Looks generally reasonable, but I thought you were planning to choose a
>> different option name?

> Yeah, but I couldn't think of a better one.  (Anything involving,
> "enable-perl-..." would have been confusing with regard to PL/Perl.)

Committed patch looks good, but should we also add the stanza we discussed
in Makefile.global.in concerning defining $(prove) in terms of "missing"
if we didn't find it?  I think the behavior of HEAD when you ask for
--enable-tap-tests but don't have "prove" might be less than ideal.
        regards, tom lane



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