Re: plperl needs upgrade for Fedora 10

Tom Lane wrote:
> Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> writes:
>   
>> Tom Lane wrote:
>>     
>>> What about the MakeMaker dependency?
>>>       
>
>   
>> The call to ldopts will fail if MakeMaker is not present, so this will 
>> cover it. It's very unlikely to be absent - it's required to build 
>> almost every Perl module known to man.
>>     
>
> I see.  I think then the error message should read something like
>
>     AC_MSG_ERROR([could not determine flags for linking embedded Perl
> This probably means that ExtUtils::Embed or ExtUtils::MakeMaker is not
> installed.])
>
> Otherwise, looks good.
>
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>   

OK. Should we backpatch this? Arguably it's a build bug.

(Also it would be good if someone were to whisper in the ears of the 
Fedora people that removing ExtUtils::Embed entirely from their Perl 
packaging is a dumb thing to do. This is a standard Perl module, that 
one would normally expect to accompany every Perl distribution.)


cheers

andrew