Re: TAP test breakage on MacOS X

On 10/30/14, 4:55 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> writes:
>> On 10/30/2014 05:23 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
>>> Anyway, I can confirm Peter's statement that the current tests work even
>>> on quite old platforms, as long as you install IPC::Run.
>
>> So, I'm a bit confused. Is the --enable-tap-tests config setting still
>> on the table?
>
> I think it should be.  You should not have to have either prove or
> IPC::Run (or, IIRC, even Perl) in order to do make check-world.

Could configure detect if we have IPC::Run? ISTM it'd be nice to make this automatic instead of requiring it to be
specificallyenabled.
 
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