Re: Perl 5.6.0
ohp@pyrenet.fr
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 > -- Olivier PRENANT Tel: +33-5-61-50-97-00 (Work) Quartier d'Harraud Turrou +33-5-61-50-97-01 (Fax) 31190 AUTERIVE +33-6-07-63-80-64 (GSM) FRANCE Email: ohp@pyrenet.fr ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Make your life a dream, make your dream a reality. (St Exupery)