Re: configure's checks for --enable-tap-tests are insufficient - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Craig Ringer
Subject Re: configure's checks for --enable-tap-tests are insufficient
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In response to configure's checks for --enable-tap-tests are insufficient  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Responses Re: configure's checks for --enable-tap-tests are insufficient  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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On 19 March 2018 at 23:56, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:

$ make -j check-world
... runs for awhile and then fails
... much excavation finds a complaint about Time::HiRes not being installed
$ sudo yum install perl-Time-HiRes

 
That's absurd. Time::HiRes is a core module, as is Test::More. Sigh.

Yes, looks like tests are necessary. I'd argue it's "test for broken Perl" but apparently Fedora think they should split the Perl core dist into tiny pieces.

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