[postgis-devel] perl dependency, via postgresql, perhaps better direct?

[Sandro Santilli]

On Sat, Jan 14, 2012 at 09:27:56AM -0500, Greg Troxel wrote:
> 
> I'm building svn trunk against various postgresql versions, and find
> that with 9.0 and 9.1, the build fails because in my postgresql builds
> pgxs.mk has PERL set to 'missing'.  (While I have perl installed, it's
> hidden from the package build on purpose as part of a plan to avoid
> unexpressed dependencies, and there's a split package
> postgresql91-plperl for those who want perl stored procedures.)
> 
> postgis has a perl script utils/postgis_proc_upgrade.pl used in the
> build.  It seems like it would be better to find perl with autoconf as
> part of the postgis build, because postgis simply needs perl as a build
> tool, and doesn't actually depend on any postgresql perl support.
> Basically, this would be one line in configure.ac and using @PERL@
> instead of $(PERL).

Agreed. Where's the patch ? :)

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