On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 2:27 PM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: > Alvaro Herrera <alvhe...@commandprompt.com> writes: >> Tom Lane escribió: >>> Yeah. Although the project policy is that we don't require Perl to >>> build on Unix, there was a bug in the makefiles that made it effectively >>> required, and nobody noticed for several years. I don't think it would >>> be a hard sell to change that policy if we got a significant benefit out >>> of it. (Depending on non-core Perl modules is a totally different thing >>> though.) > >> Well, this is a pretty fortunate turn of events. I had two paragraphs >> in my original email that I edited out ("... so I'm not going to say >> more") on how to workaround the lack of Perl. If we're all OK now on >> requiring some basic Perl installation then all the better. I certainly >> have no trouble with it. > > Although actually, we could still keep that policy if Perl is needed to > build .bki files --- we just have to build those files in distprep and > ship them as part of tarballs. It's already the case that you need Perl > to build from a CVS pull, it's only tarball users who don't need it.
I just said the same thing a few hours ago... ...Robert -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers