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From: Andrew Dunstan <[email protected]>
To: Andres Freund <[email protected]>
Cc: PostgreSQL Hackers <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: meson/msys2 fails with plperl/Strawberry
Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2023 11:00:01 -0400
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On 2023-03-27 Mo 13:18, Andres Freund wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 2023-03-26 21:13:41 -0400, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>>> On Mar 26, 2023, at 5:28 PM, Andres Freund<[email protected]>  wrote:
>>>> On 2023-03-26 12:39:08 -0700, Andres Freund wrote:
>>>> First: I am *not* arguing we shouldn't repair building against strawberry perl
>>>> with mingw.
>>> Hm - can you describe the failure more - I just tried, and it worked to build
>>> against strawberry perl on mingw, without any issues. All I did was set
>>> -DPERL="c:/strawberrly/perl/bin/perl.exe".
>> That might be the secret sauce I’m missing. I will be offline for a day or three, will test when I’m back.
> It should suffice to put strawberry perl first in PATH. All that the -DPERL
> does is to use that, instead of 'perl' from PATH. If putting strawberry perl
> ahead in PATH failed, something else must have been going on...



Yeah, What it actually needed was a system upgrade. Sorry for the noise.


cheers


andrew


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