On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 7:24 PM, Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> wrote:
> On Monday 21 December 2009 04:23:57 Tom Lane wrote:
>> Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> writes:
>> > On Monday 21 December 2009 02:23:39 Robert Haas wrote:
>> >> A more important point is whether we really need to make this
>> >> dependent on Perl 5.6 or later.
>> >
>> > I dont see a platform without perl 5.6 where a new enough flex/bison is
>> > available...
>>
>> That argument only holds water if you are willing to follow the same
>> rules as we use for flex/bison, ie, they are not needed to build from
>> a source tarball. Otherwise this *is* moving the goalposts on required
>> tool support.
> The patch already does that if I understood John correctly.
Yes, everything output by Perl in my patch is a distprep target.
Some minor changes would enable it to work on 5.0, but I'd like to
make sure that's necessary.
So, what Perl version should be targeted for those building from CVS,
and is that already documented somewhere? Does anyone know the
earliest version on the build farm?
John
