Re: [RFC] building postgres with meson - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Josef Šimánek
Subject Re: [RFC] building postgres with meson
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Msg-id CAFp7QwrUD2--m09HAZXYo3Tb0aBW_esEuU3J7+o=ySjssZkpMQ@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: [RFC] building postgres with meson  (Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker <ilmari@ilmari.org>)
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čt 14. 10. 2021 v 15:14 odesílatel Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker
<ilmari@ilmari.org> napsal:
>
> Josef Šimánek <josef.simanek@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > The only problem I do have currently is auto-detection of perl. I'm
> > getting error related to missing "Opcode.pm". PERL is autodetected and
> > enabled (https://pastebin.com/xfRRrDcU).
>
> Your Perl (not PERL) installation seems to be incomplete. Opcode.pm is a
> core module, and should be in /usr/lib64/perl5, judging by the paths in
> the error message.
>
> Which OS is this?  Some Linux distributions have separate packages for
> the interpreter itself and the included modules, and the packages can be
> named confusingly.  E.g. on older Redhat/Fedora versions you have to
> install the 'perl-core' package to get all the modules, 'perl' is just
> the interpreter and the bare minimum set of strictily necessary modules.
>
> They've fixed this in recent versions (Fedora 34 and Redhat 8, IIRC), so
> that 'perl' gives you the hole bundle, and 'perl-interpeter' is the
> minimal one.

I'm using Fedora 34 and I still see perl-Opcode.x86_64 as a separate
package. Anyway it behaves differently with autoconf tools and the
meson build system. Is perl disabled by default in the current build
system?

>
> - ilmari



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