Re: building without perl - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Andrew Dunstan
Subject Re: building without perl
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Msg-id 4A4055E4.3010609@dunslane.net
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In response to Re: building without perl  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Tom Lane wrote:
> 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.
>
>             
>   

Oh. Oops!

cheers

andrew


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