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Date: Tue, 07 Jul 2009 11:57:01 -0400
From: Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>
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Subject: Re: Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Initialise perl library as
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Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>
> I think we need to float a bug upstream to the perl guys on this, but 
> as a holding position I suggest that we alter the #ifdef test to avoid 
> calling PERL_SYS_INIT3() where MYMALLOC is defined. It's ugly, but I 
> can't think of another simple way around it (and we've done worse 
> things to accommodate platform weirdness ;-) )
>
>

It turns out that this doesn't work on Cygwin with its latest Perl 
(which has MYMALLOC defined). If we call PERL_SYS_INIT3() it fails in 
that call, and if we don't call it it fails later. We haven't noticed it 
earlier because my Cygwin buildfarm member's Perl is a couple of years 
old. I guess we're lucky that it's not a more critical platform, but 
there is no guarantee that this is the only place it will fail, now or 
in the future. I will see about following up more energetically with the 
Perl people.

The workaround on Cygwin is to downgrade the perl installation to 5.8.8.

cheers

andrew