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Re: Why do we have perl and sed versions of Gen_dummy_probes?

Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>

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From: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
To: Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker <ilmari@ilmari.org>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org, Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>, Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>, Craig Ringer <craig.ringer@enterprisedb.com>
Date: 2021-05-07T17:36:32Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
Hi,

On 2021-05-06 11:13:28 +0100, Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker wrote:
> Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> writes:
> 
> > I tried to regenerate Gen_dummy_probes.pl using s2p - which doesn't seem
> > to exist for modern versions of perl anymore :(
> 
> It still exists, it's just not part of the core Perl distribution any
> more (since 5.22, released in 2015):
> 
>   https://metacpan.org/pod/perl5220delta#find2perl,-s2p-and-a2p-removal
>   https://metacpan.org/release/App-s2p.

Oh, I got confused because the cpan link at the top of
https://perldoc.perl.org/5.6.2/s2p is dead, and because I forgot all I
knew about perl a long time ago.

Greetings,

Andres Freund

Commits

  1. Tweak generation of Gen_dummy_probes.pl

  2. Add a README and Makefile recipe for Gen_dummy_probes.pl

  3. Remove dependency on psed for MSVC builds.