On Tuesday 23 June 2009 06:43:29 Tom Lane wrote:
> Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> writes:
> > Tom Lane wrote:
> >> Actually, further investigation discloses that someone broke the no-Perl
> >> defense in psql's makefile back in 8.0, and we hadn't noticed till now.
> >
> > Don't we ship sql_help.h in the tarball? I thought that's all the perl
> > was used for in psql.
>
> Yeah, but the makefile protected that with "ifdef PERL", which stopped
> failing as intended when someone forced some quotes into the value of
> PERL. I'm about to commit something that hopefully will be a bit more
> robust.
So one would have only seen the difference if there was a timestamp skew in
the unpacked tarball, or indeed perl was indeed missing.