Re: It's June 1; do you know where your release is?

Andrew Dunstan wrote:
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> Andrew Dunstan wrote:
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>> Josh Berkus wrote:
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>>>     *  plperl fails with Perl 5.10 on Windows
>>>           o tgl says: no reports of this with pre-8.4 Postgres, but 
>>> I bet that's just because no one tried it
>>>           o dpage says: I'm rolling back the Windows installers to 
>>> use 5.8 for now. Would appreciate help from anyone familiar with 
>>> Perl internals to try to debug this further!
>>>
>>> -- Dunstan, Wheeler, Sabino-Mullaine, 'lil help please?
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>> I'm working on it.
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> Well, the first problem we encounter is this gem in the GNUMakefile 
> (and there is an equivalent in the MSVC build setup):
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>    ifeq ($(*PORTNAME*), win32)
>    perl_archlibexp := $(*subst \,/,$(perl_archlibexp)*)
>    perl_privlibexp := $(*subst \,/,$(perl_privlibexp)*)
>    perl_embed_ldflags = -L$(*perl_archlibexp*)/CORE -lperl58
>    override CPPFLAGS += -DPLPERL_HAVE_UID_GID
>    /# Perl on win32 contains /* within comment all over the header file,
>    //# so disable this warning.
>    /override CFLAGS += -Wno-comment
>    endif
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> Note the hardcoded perl58 library name.
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> If we fix that then we get the previously reported crash. I'll try to 
> put some traces in to see exactly why that might be happening.
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Update: the problem is apparently occurring during the call to 
perl_parse() in plperl_init_interp().

Not sure why yet, but that might help other people to concentrate on 
where the problem is.

cheers

andrew