Re: Patch to install config/missing - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From David E. Wheeler
Subject Re: Patch to install config/missing
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Msg-id FA492AB8-D780-411C-AE17-601BE0699CBE@justatheory.com
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In response to Re: Patch to install config/missing  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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On Nov 2, 2015, at 1:07 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:

> I wonder how much we need that script at all though.  If, say, configure
> doesn't find bison, what's so wrong with just defining BISON=bison and
> letting the usual shell "bison: command not found" error leak through?

+1 This would certainly make it easier for downstream use cases, as well. Was not relishing having to parse the PERL
variableto find out if Perl was missing. 

David


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