Re: configure fails for perl check on CentOS8

Andrew Dunstan <andrew.dunstan@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
> On Tue, Oct 15, 2019 at 6:45 AM Kyotaro Horiguchi
> <horikyota.ntt@gmail.com> wrote:
>> The problematic command line boils down to:
>> $ ./configure --with-perl CFLAGS=-O0
>> It is bash-aliased and survived without being found for a long time on
>> my Cent7 environment, but CentOS8 doesn't allow that.

I don't quite understand why that wouldn't work.

>> By the way, is there any official way to specify options like -O0
>> while configure time?

> CFLAGS=-O0 configure  --with-perl ...

The way Horiguchi-san did it has been supported by autoconf for
a good long time now, so I don't think command line syntax is
the issue.  Could that CFLAGS setting be interfering with some
feature test in our configure script?

            regards, tom lane