Getting an error if we provide --enable-tap-tests switch on SLES 12

tushar <tushar.ahuja@enterprisedb.com>

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From: tushar <tushar.ahuja@enterprisedb.com>

To: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>

Cc: Srinu Perabattula <srinu.perabattula@enterprisedb.com>

Date: 2023-01-04T11:57:55Z

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perl.patch (application/octet-stream) patch

Hi,

We found that if we provide *--enable-tap-tests * switch at the time of PG
sources configuration,  getting this below error
"
checking for Perl modules required for TAP tests... Can't locate IPC/Run.pm
in @INC (you may need to install the IPC::Run module) (@INC contains:
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.18.2/x86_64-linux-thread-multi
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.18.2
/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.18.2/x86_64-linux-thread-multi
/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.18.2
/usr/lib/perl5/5.18.2/x86_64-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/5.18.2
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl .) at ./config/check_modules.pl line 11.

BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at ./config/check_modules.pl line 11.

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

look like this is happening because the Perl-IPC-Run package is not
available on SLES 12 where Perl-IPC-Run3 is available.

Srinu (my teammate) found that  IPC::Run is hard coded in config/
check_modules.pl and if we replace Run to Run3 it works (patch is attached,
created by Srinu)

Do we have any better option to work without this workaround?

regards,