Re: [HACKERS] PL_stashcache, or, what's our minimum Perl version?

On 7/31/17 15:38, Tom Lane wrote:
> Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
>> One major PITA with the AC_PATH_* checks is that you can only override
>> them with environment variables that are full paths; otherwise the
>> environment variables are ignored.  For example, currently, running
> 
>> ./configure PYTHON=python3
> 
>> will result in the PYTHON setting being ignored.
> 
> Really?  That seems pretty broken, independently of how many variables
> are affected.  But the ones you'd be most likely to do that with are
> using AC_PATH_PROG already, I think.  Having lesser-used program variables
> behave inconsistently doesn't seem like much of a win.

Well, if we're fiddling around here, I would change them all to
AC_CHECK_PROG if possible.  Especially the PYTHON one annoys me all the
time.  CC is another one I set occasionally.

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