Re: TAP test breakage on MacOS X

Jim Nasby <Jim.Nasby@BlueTreble.com> writes:
> On 10/30/14, 4:55 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
>> I think it should be.  You should not have to have either prove or
>> IPC::Run (or, IIRC, even Perl) in order to do make check-world.

> Could configure detect if we have IPC::Run? ISTM it'd be nice to make this automatic instead of requiring it to be
specificallyenabled.
 

The general philosophy we have about features enabled by configure is
exactly opposite to that: we do not for example look for Perl and then
build or not build plperl dependent on that.  If you want plperl, you
tell us so, and then we either build it or fail because we can't.

You could argue that test coverage is different from features of the
completed package, but I don't really buy that.
        regards, tom lane