Re: Remove MSVC scripts from the tree

Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>

From: Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>
To: Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>, Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>, Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>, Postgres hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>
Date: 2023-12-20T18:00:50Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
> On 20 Dec 2023, at 18:22, Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> wrote:
> On 2023-12-20 We 11:32, Robert Haas wrote:
>> On Wed, Dec 20, 2023 at 11:03 AM Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> wrote:
>>>> This could perhaps be related to this patch removing the module in
>>>> src/tools/msvc/dummylib/Win32/Registry.pm ?
>>> It is. I've fixed the buildfarm to stop checking this script.
>> Thanks! But I wonder whether the script itself also needs to be
>> changed? Are we expecting that the 'use Win32::Registry' in
>> win32tzlist.pl would be satisfied externally in some case?
> 
> Yes, the module will normally be present on a Windows perl. The only reason we had dummylib was so we could check the perl scripts on Unix.

Thanks for taking care of it!

--
Daniel Gustafsson




Commits

  1. Make win32tzlist.pl checkable again

  2. meson: Make gzip and tar optional

  3. meson: Make sed optional

  4. Remove MSVC scripts

  5. Replace Gen_dummy_probes.sed with Gen_dummy_probes.pl