Re: PL/perl should fail on configure, not make - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Peter Eisentraut
Subject Re: PL/perl should fail on configure, not make
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In response to Re: PL/perl should fail on configure, not make  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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On 1/10/13 4:38 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> It's complete folly to imagine that configure checks all and exactly the
> things that we require to build.  In fact, I'd argue that a majority of
> what it does is inference or approximation of some sort.

I'm not saying they have to be exact.  But you have to be prepared to
make them more exact when your approximations don't work out in practice.



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