On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 11:39 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> writes:
>> On 07/21/2014 02:40 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
>>> 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.
>
> I think it would be reasonable to do that in the 9.4 branch, since
> it's a bit hard to argue that the TAP tests are production grade
> at the moment. We could leave them there in HEAD.
That doesn't do developers who can't run the tests in their
environment much good: most people develop against master. Maybe
that's the point: to get these fixed. But it's pretty annoying that
I can no longer do 'make world'.
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