Re: [HACKERS] Detection of IPC::Run presence in SSL TAP tests

Michael Paquier <michael.paquier@gmail.com> writes:
> On Tue, Jun 13, 2017 at 11:14 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>> I'd vote for removing this and adding a configure-time check that
>> insists on IPC::Run when --enable-tap-tests is given.

> There was a patch last year to do something like that:
> https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/56BDDC20.9020506@postgrespro.ru
> While Test::More is part of any standard installation, IPC::Run is
> not. FWIW, I still think that this is worth checking for. That's way
> better than having the TAP tests explode with a weird fatal failure
> where one needs to dig into the logs just to find out that the module
> is missing.

> Attached is an updated patch, with credit mainly going to Eugene
> Kazakov. I have run autoconf myself, I know that usually committers do
> that... Hope you don't mind.

Pushed, thanks.  I grabbed the very latest copy of ax_prog_perl_modules
out of the GNU archives --- it's only cosmetically different, but we
might as well be au courant.
        regards, tom lane