Re: PL_stashcache, or, what's our minimum Perl version?

Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>

From: Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com>, pgsql-hackers@postgreSQL.org
Date: 2017-08-03T21:08:44Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers

On 07/31/2017 06:54 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> but could we do something like
>     my $pflags = "PROVE_FLAGS='" . ($ENV{PROVE_FLAGS} || "--timer") . "'";
>
> to allow overriding this choice from the buildfarm config?
>
>


I have committed this in a slightly different form.

cheers

andrew


Commits

  1. Adjust configure to insist on Perl version >= 5.8.3.

  2. Further improve consistency of configure's program searching.

  3. Doc: specify that the minimum supported version of Perl is 5.8.3.

  4. Record full paths of programs sought by "configure".

  5. Abandon the use of Perl's Safe.pm to enforce restrictions in plperl, as it is