Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> writes:
>> 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.
> So one would have only seen the difference if there was a timestamp skew in
> the unpacked tarball, or indeed perl was indeed missing.
Well, the case we're really trying to deal with (as in, fail cleanly on)
is a build from CVS without perl.
regards, tom lane
