Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com> writes:
> 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'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.
gaur is still plugging away on a new run, but it got past the
pg_dump-check step, so I think you're good.
prairiedog has a similar-vintage Perl, so likely it would have shown the
problem too; but it's slow enough that it never saw the intermediate state
between these commits.
regards, tom lane
