Re: Portability issues in TAP tests - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Andrew Dunstan
Subject Re: Portability issues in TAP tests
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Msg-id 53CD6CDB.6010105@dunslane.net
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In response to Re: Portability issues in TAP tests  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Responses Re: Portability issues in TAP tests  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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On 07/21/2014 02:40 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
>> Mmph.  Well, I don't want to install a non-default Perl on my system
>> just to make these tests pass, and I don't think that should be a
>> requirement.
> I had the same feeling about the Perl on RHEL6 ;-).  The TAP tests
> will need to be a great deal more portable than they've proven so far
> before they'll really be useful for anything much.  I trust we're
> committed to making that happen.
>
>             


I'd be rather inclined to remove them from the check-world and 
installcheck-world targets until we have dealt with the issues people 
have identified.

cheers

andrew



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