Re: PSA: we lack TAP test coverage on NetBSD and OpenBSD

Mikael Kjellström <mikael.kjellstrom@mksoft.nu>

From: Mikael Kjellström <mikael.kjellstrom@mksoft.nu>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org
Date: 2019-01-17T21:38:10Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On 2019-01-17 22:19, Mikael Kjellström wrote:

> On 2019-01-17 22:16, Tom Lane wrote:
> 
>>> For what it's worth I've enabled tap-tests for my OpenBSD 5.9 (curculio)
>>> and NetBSD 7 (sidewinder) animals now.
>>
>> Oh, thanks!  I'm guessing they'll fail their next runs, but I'll
>> wait to see confirmation of that before I do anything about the
>> test bug.
> 
> They should run the next time within the hour or hour and a half so I 
> guess we will find out soon enough.

Hm, that didn't go so well.

It says:

configure: error: Additional Perl modules are required to run TAP tests

so how do I find out with Perl modules that are required?

/Mikael


Commits

  1. Fix portability problem in pgbench.

  2. Avoid assuming that we know the spelling of getopt_long's error messages.