Re: [HACKERS] sh - pl

2008-06-18 Thread Bruce Momjian
David Fetter wrote: On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 10:19:59AM -0400, Andrew Dunstan wrote: David Fetter wrote: Folks, I've noticed that a big hunk of our build system has gratuitous dependencies on some variety of shell and on tools like sed, none of which makes Windows developers feel

Re: [HACKERS] sh - pl

2008-06-18 Thread Andrew Dunstan
Bruce Momjian wrote: David Fetter wrote: On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 10:19:59AM -0400, Andrew Dunstan wrote: David Fetter wrote: Folks, I've noticed that a big hunk of our build system has gratuitous dependencies on some variety of shell and on tools like sed, none of which

Re: [HACKERS] sh - pl

2008-06-17 Thread Andrew Dunstan
David Fetter wrote: Folks, I've noticed that a big hunk of our build system has gratuitous dependencies on some variety of shell and on tools like sed, none of which makes Windows developers feel welcome. I know people are working toward a cmake or other more cross-platform toolchain. My

Re: [HACKERS] sh - pl

2008-06-17 Thread Tom Lane
David Fetter [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: My proposal is a lot more modest, and doesn't conflict with the larger one. I'd like to move the above stuff to self-contained perl would help to make things more cross-platform and clean up, no offense to the fine authors, some pretty crufty code in

Re: [HACKERS] sh - pl

2008-06-17 Thread David Fetter
On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 10:19:59AM -0400, Andrew Dunstan wrote: David Fetter wrote: Folks, I've noticed that a big hunk of our build system has gratuitous dependencies on some variety of shell and on tools like sed, none of which makes Windows developers feel welcome. I know people are

Re: [HACKERS] sh - pl

2008-06-17 Thread Andrew Dunstan
David Fetter wrote: On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 10:19:59AM -0400, Andrew Dunstan wrote: David Fetter wrote: Folks, I've noticed that a big hunk of our build system has gratuitous dependencies on some variety of shell and on tools like sed, none of which makes Windows developers feel

Re: [HACKERS] sh - pl

2008-06-17 Thread Alvaro Herrera
David Fetter wrote: That new version stamper calls out to sed, when perl is perfectly capable of doing the same work itself and not spawning 30 shells in the process. That's great. Please send a patch to improve the stamper. (Are you really worried about its performance, given that it runs

Re: [HACKERS] sh - pl

2008-06-17 Thread Joshua D. Drake
David Fetter wrote: On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 10:19:59AM -0400, Andrew Dunstan wrote: David Fetter wrote: Folks, Well, it'll wind up with a build system that's documented a lot better than it is :) Is perl currently required to build from tarball? If not, you would be placing an additional

Re: [HACKERS] sh - pl

2008-06-17 Thread Tom Lane
Alvaro Herrera [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: David Fetter wrote: This is 2008, and it's silly to pretend we need to support this requirement on systems where people are building Postgres. Maybe, or maybe not. Do these platforms all have Perl? In this connection it might be worth pointing to the

Re: [HACKERS] sh - pl

2008-06-17 Thread Kris Jurka
On Tue, 17 Jun 2008, Alvaro Herrera wrote: Maybe, or maybe not. Do these platforms all have Perl? Of course. They're all buildfarm clients and the buildfarm script is perl. Kris Jurka -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your

Re: [HACKERS] sh - pl

2008-06-17 Thread Jorgen Austvik
Alvaro Herrera wrote: Maybe, or maybe not. Do these platforms all have Perl? gypsy_moth Solaris 8 SUN Studio 8 spar If the moths don't have perl, we'll add it, no problem - don't let that stop anything. (On a separate note, we have had some problems internally with DNS, so some

Re: [HACKERS] sh - pl

2008-06-17 Thread Andrew Dunstan
Jorgen Austvik wrote: Alvaro Herrera wrote: Maybe, or maybe not. Do these platforms all have Perl? gypsy_moth Solaris 8 SUN Studio 8 spar If the moths don't have perl, we'll add it, no problem - don't let that stop anything. Of course they have perl - the buildfarm script is perl.