Re: Build fails for pl/tcl on OpenBSD
Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
From: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>, Robert Hentosh <hentosh@io.com>, pgsql-bugs@postgresql.org
Date: 2001-05-07T22:08:50Z
Lists: pgsql-bugs
> Yes, we deliberately build the Tcl and Perl interfaces and PL modules > with those systems' preferred compilers and switches, and have done so > since PG 7.0 (at least, maybe earlier). IIRC, this was forced by the > observation that the other way didn't work. > > Curious that so many people are complaining of pl/tcl failures now, > when there were almost no such reports for 7.0. AFAIK, 7.0 should have > been equally vulnerable. Perhaps someone has just recently started > distributing Tcl packages containing bogus tclConfig information? The cause for me was my misconfiguration during a reinstall of tcl 8.0.5. -- Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us pgman@candle.pha.pa.us | (610) 853-3000 + If your life is a hard drive, | 830 Blythe Avenue + Christ can be your backup. | Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania 19026