Re: PL/Perl compilation error

Tom Lane wrote:
> Alex Guryanow <gav@nlr.ru> writes:
> > [root@eaccess plperl]# perl Makefile.PL
>
> For recent Perl versions you need to do
>         perl Makefile.PL POLLUTE=1
> instead.  The src/pl Makefile would've done it that way for you,
> but it looks like that code patch didn't make it to the docs...
>
> Someone needs to update our Perl code so that it will compile cleanly
> against both newer and not-so-new Perls.  There are notes in our mail
> archives about how to do this (basically "use Devel::PPPort" is the
> long-term answer) but it hasn't gotten to the top of anyone's to-do
> list.

    Can someone eventually enlighten me a little?

    We've    had   problems   like   platform/version   dependant
    compilation errors with PL/Tcl in the past too, but they  got
    fixed  pretty  quick and a reasonable number of people worked
    on that all together.

    We have frequent compilation error reports with  PL/perl  but
    nobody seems to be able/willing to do anything about it.

    PL/perl  was  once  highly  requested feature. Now there is a
    code base and lesser experienced programmers  could  continue
    the work, but nobody does.

    What  is  the problem with perl? Are there only alot of users
    but no hackers? The frequent fail reports suggest that  there
    are  folks  who  want  to  have  that  thing running. I can't
    believe that a piece of open  source  software,  that  is  so
    popular, is implemented in such an ugly way that nobody has a
    clue how to fix that damned thing.

    So please tell me why people spend their time  writing  error
    reports  again  and  again  instead  of  simply fixing it and
    submitting a patch.


Jan

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