Re: Perl 5.6.0

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From: Olivier PRENANT <ohp@pyrenet.fr>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Trond Eivind Glomsrød <teg@redhat.com>, pgsql-hackers@postgreSQL.org
Date: 2000-05-28T17:01:57Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Thanks to all who replied to my mail.

Now that I switched to 7.0, you were right it works...

Again, thank you al

Regards
On Wed, 24 May 2000, Tom Lane wrote:

> teg@redhat.com (Trond Eivind=?iso-8859-1?q?_Glomsr=F8d?=) writes:
> > Olivier PRENANT <ohp@pyrenet.fr> writes:
> >> It fails because the perl symbols sv-undef and na have been renamed to
> >> PL_sv_undef and PL_na;
> 
> > FWIW, the postgresql in Red Hat Rawhide is built with perl 5.6.0
> > and didn't need any patches to make it build.
> 
> The stopgap solution is to say
> 	perl Makefile.PL POLLUTE=1
> (in the interfaces/perl5 directory) and then build as usual.  This
> should happen automatically if you are using Postgres 7.0, but you
> could do it manually if you have an older release.
> 
> There is a cleaner long-term solution but it involves more work...
> 
> 			regards, tom lane
> 

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