On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 12:48 PM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: > Peter Eisentraut <pete...@gmx.net> writes: >> On 4/28/15 12:05 AM, Tom Lane wrote: >>> Yeah. Even more specifically, olinguito does have --with-python in its >>> configure flags, but then the plpython Makefile skips the build because >>> libpython isn't available as a shared library. But the contrib test is >>> (I assume, haven't looked) conditional only on the configure flag. >>> >>> I'm not real sure now why we felt that was a good approach. The general >>> project policy is that if you ask for a feature in the configure flags, >>> we'll build it or die trying; how come this specific Python issue gets >>> special treatment contrary to that policy? > >> The reason for the current setup is actually that when plperl and later >> plpython was added, we still had Perl and Python client modules in our >> tree (Pg.pm and pygresql), and configure --with-perl and --with-python >> were meant to activate their build primarily. Also, in those days, >> having a shared libperl or libpython was rare. But we didn't want to >> fail the frontend interface builds because of that. So we arrived at >> the current workaround. > > Ah. I'm glad you remember, because I didn't.
Interesting, those are pieces of history: commit: f10a9033bf308f9dde0aa77caad6503e233489d1 author: Peter Eisentraut <pete...@gmx.net> date: Mon, 1 Sep 2003 23:01:49 +0000 Clean up after pygresql removal: adjust/remove documentation and remove unneeded configure work. commit: 9a0b4d7f847469544798133391e221481548e1b9 author: Marc G. Fournier <scra...@hub.org> date: Fri, 30 Aug 2002 13:06:22 +0000 perl5 interface moved to gborg >> My preference would be to rip all that out and let the compiler or >> linker decide when it doesn't want to link something. > > Works for me, assuming that we get an understandable failure message and > not, say, a plperl.so that mysteriously doesn't work. +1. -- Michael -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
