Re: PL/perl should fail on configure, not make

"Aaron W. Swenson" <titanofold@gentoo.org> writes:
> On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 08:12:56PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
>> Sorry about going off on a theological tangent.  The important question
>> at this point is, can anybody fix the test so it works on Gentoo?
>> If not we'll have to pull it out, whether or not it would be a good
>> thing to have on Debian.

> I can give it a go.

Great, thanks!

One thing we can see now that we have a full buildfarm cycle with that
patch is that two out of the three Gentoo machines in the farm are
perfectly happy with it --- only okapi doesn't like it.  So that raises
a new set of questions.  It seems somewhat likely now that this is a
local misconfiguration problem on okapi, but unless we can diagnose it
I still feel that we'll have to drop the configure probe.

Just a moment ago I pushed another change to make configure place the
-I$perl_archlibexp/CORE switch at the end of CPPFLAGS not the beginning,
because that's how plperl's makefile does it.  I have not got much hope
that the problem is an include search order issue, but that's the last
thing I can think to try.  I don't see any other plausibly-significant
differences between what configure is doing and what the makefile is
doing.
        regards, tom lane