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Re: PL/perl should fail on configure, not make

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>, Tim Bunce <Tim.Bunce@pobox.com>
Date: 2013-01-09T02:10:24Z
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Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com> writes:
> The way it is now (9.2.2):
> 1. set up a new system
> 2. forget to install libperl-dev
> 3. ./configure --with-perl
> 4. get no failures or warnings
> 5. make
> 6. make errors out on plperl.so

> The way it should work:

> - configure should error out, as it does with python.

Hm.  I don't see any configure-time test for availability of perl.h,
which is probably what we ought to add here.

			regards, tom lane