Thread: pltcl -- solved

pltcl -- solved

From
ohp@pyrenet.fr
Date:
Hi all

Just a note that pltcl is now passing regression tests on Unixware.
For some unexplained reason, it did'nt pass with tcl-8.5 but is ok with
tcl -8.4.13.

build farm build script updated accordingly.

My next try will be python.

Regards

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Re: pltcl -- solved

From
Tom Lane
Date:
ohp@pyrenet.fr writes:
> Just a note that pltcl is now passing regression tests on Unixware.
> For some unexplained reason, it did'nt pass with tcl-8.5 but is ok with
> tcl -8.4.13.

AFAICT there is no "tcl 8.5" yet; there is an alpha release tcl8.5a4
which is stated to still be under active feature development.
I installed it locally and pltcl seems to work OK with it, so I'm not
sure what problem you saw.  One possibility is that the Tcl folk
recommend against building extensions with a different compiler than
was used to build Tcl ... so if you tried to build pltcl with gcc
against a Tcl compiled with Unixware cc, or vice versa, that might be
the core of the problem.

Anyway I'm not too concerned about misbehavior with an alpha Tcl release
--- it's as likely to be their bug as ours.
        regards, tom lane


Re: pltcl -- solved

From
ohp@pyrenet.fr
Date:
Hi Tom,
On Tue, 20 Jun 2006, Tom Lane wrote:

> Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2006 12:42:24 -0400
> From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
> To: ohp@pyrenet.fr
> Cc: pgsql-hackers list <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] pltcl -- solved
>
> ohp@pyrenet.fr writes:
> > Just a note that pltcl is now passing regression tests on Unixware.
> > For some unexplained reason, it did'nt pass with tcl-8.5 but is ok with
> > tcl -8.4.13.
>
> AFAICT there is no "tcl 8.5" yet; there is an alpha release tcl8.5a4
> which is stated to still be under active feature development.
Yes
> I installed it locally and pltcl seems to work OK with it, so I'm not
> sure what problem you saw.  One possibility is that the Tcl folk
> recommend against building extensions with a different compiler than
> was used to build Tcl ... so if you tried to build pltcl with gcc
> against a Tcl compiled with Unixware cc, or vice versa, that might be
> the core of the problem.
It's not the case.
>
> Anyway I'm not too concerned about misbehavior with an alpha Tcl release
> --- it's as likely to be their bug as ours.
>
I agree, I'll test it again when tcl 8.5 is out...
>             regards, tom lane
>
Best regards
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