Re: many animals are running old clients

Andrew Dunstan <andrew.dunstan@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
> On 08/18/2018 06:48 AM, Mikael Kjellström wrote:
>> Every time I upgrade I need to go through all the .pl-files and change 
>> the path to where perl is located as different os/distros has perl at 
>> different paths and also it's not even consistent within the shipped 
>> files.

> Would it help if I added a script to set the perl locations? 

Is it really necessary to touch the shebang lines at all?
I thought if you invoked the top script with
    perl-of-choice /path/to/run_build.pl ... args ...
then you'd be good.  If that's not so, maybe we could make it work?

>> I also go through the config-file line by line to see if anything is 
>> changed or added.

Yeah, this bit is the most time-consuming for me.  Not sure what's to
be done about it.

            regards, tom lane