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From: Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker <[email protected]>
To: Josef Šimánek <[email protected]>
Cc: Andres Freund <[email protected]>
Cc: Pg Hackers <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [RFC] building postgres with meson
Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2021 14:32:49 +0100
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Josef Šimánek <[email protected]> writes:

> čt 14. 10. 2021 v 15:14 odesílatel Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker
> <[email protected]> napsal:
>>
>> Josef Šimánek <[email protected]> writes:
>>
>> > The only problem I do have currently is auto-detection of perl. I'm
>> > getting error related to missing "Opcode.pm". PERL is autodetected and
>> > enabled (https://pastebin.com/xfRRrDcU).
>>
>> Your Perl (not PERL) installation seems to be incomplete. Opcode.pm is a
>> core module, and should be in /usr/lib64/perl5, judging by the paths in
>> the error message.
>>
>> Which OS is this?  Some Linux distributions have separate packages for
>> the interpreter itself and the included modules, and the packages can be
>> named confusingly.  E.g. on older Redhat/Fedora versions you have to
>> install the 'perl-core' package to get all the modules, 'perl' is just
>> the interpreter and the bare minimum set of strictily necessary modules.
>>
>> They've fixed this in recent versions (Fedora 34 and Redhat 8, IIRC), so
>> that 'perl' gives you the hole bundle, and 'perl-interpeter' is the
>> minimal one.
>
> I'm using Fedora 34 and I still see perl-Opcode.x86_64 as a separate
> package.`

Yes, it's a separate package, but the 'perl' package depends on all the
core module packages, so installing that should fix things.  You appear
to only have 'perl-interpreter' installed.

> Anyway it behaves differently with autoconf tools and the meson build
> system. Is perl disabled by default in the current build system?

configure doesn't auto-detect any optional features, they have to be
explicitly enabled using --with-foo switches.

- ilmari

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