Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Enable probes to work with Mac OS X Leopard and other OSes that

Andrew Dunstan wrote:
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> Robert Lor wrote:
>> Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>>> Well, yes.  I meant to say, a build system that can supply the 
>>> functionality of Gen_fmgrtab can surely implement this new thing.  I 
>>> see there is Perl being used, so it should be simple.
>>>   
>> I was thinking of using a Perl script to generate the dummy header 
>> file but decided against it to avoid disrupting the build on other 
>> platforms. If sed doesn't work on Windows for some reason, we can use 
>> a Perl script instead.
>>
>>
> 
> What we should do in fact is to use psed on Windows to execute the 
> script. This is a sed emulator that is part of the standard perl 
> install, and will save us the bother of having to maintain two 
> generation scripts, or switching from sed to perl. We just need to find 
> where to plug that into the Windows build process.

Hadn't heard about that one. Sounds like a good way to do it, if you can 
find the correct place for it :-)

//Magnus