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From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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To: | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> |
Cc: | Travis Bauer <trbauer(at)indiana(dot)edu>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: [HACKERS] Re: Problems compiling version 7 |
Date: | 2000-05-10 16:02:43 |
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Peter Eisentraut <e99re41(at)DoCS(dot)UU(dot)SE> writes:
> On Tue, 9 May 2000, Tom Lane wrote:
>> dnl Check tr flags to convert from lower to upper case
>> Does anyone recall why this test is in there to begin with?
> I don't see the results of this test being used anywhere at all, so I'd
> say yank it. If your system doesn't support tr '[A-Z]' '[a-z]' the
> configure script will fail to run anyway, as it uses this contruct
> indiscriminately.
The results *are* used, in backend/utils/Gen_fmgrtab.sh.in (and
apparently nowhere else). But the data being processed there is just
builtin function names, so I'm at a loss why someone thought that it'd
be worth testing for a locale-specific variant of 'tr'. I agree, I'm
pretty strongly tempted to yank it.
But we haven't yet figured out Travis' problem: why is the configure
test failing? Useless or not, I don't see why it's falling over...
regards, tom lane
From: | Travis Bauer <trbauer(at)indiana(dot)edu> |
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Subject: | Re: [HACKERS] Re: Problems compiling version 7 |
Date: | 2000-05-10 17:11:43 |
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I've found part of the problem. I put "echo $TR" right before the line
that is failing. $TR is set to "/usr/ucb/tr" during the
configuration. The directory ucb does not exist. If execute "which
tr" at the command line, I get "/usr/bin//tr." Why is $TR getting set to
/usr/ucb/tr?
By the way, I do not get this problem when compiling the last version of
Postgresql on this same machine. I'm in the processof upgrading. That
compile was fine.
Thanks,
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>
> But we haven't yet figured out Travis' problem: why is the configure
> test failing? Useless or not, I don't see why it's falling over...
>
> regards, tom lane
From: | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> |
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To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
Cc: | Travis Bauer <trbauer(at)indiana(dot)edu>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: [HACKERS] Re: Problems compiling version 7 |
Date: | 2000-05-10 21:25:29 |
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Tom Lane writes:
> >> dnl Check tr flags to convert from lower to upper case
> The results *are* used, in backend/utils/Gen_fmgrtab.sh.in (and
> apparently nowhere else).
Ah, I see. Substituting into source files directly from configure ... very
evil...
(Before you ask why: What if I change Gen_fmgrtab.sh.in, do I have to
re-configure?)
> But we haven't yet figured out Travis' problem: why is the configure
> test failing? Useless or not, I don't see why it's falling over...
Unfortunately he cut off the line where it says `checking for tr'.
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From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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To: | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> |
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Subject: | Re: [HACKERS] Re: Problems compiling version 7 |
Date: | 2000-05-10 22:24:19 |
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Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> writes:
> Ah, I see. Substituting into source files directly from configure ... very
> evil...
> (Before you ask why: What if I change Gen_fmgrtab.sh.in, do I have to
> re-configure?)
Yup, or at least re-run config.status. I've griped that configure
writes far too many files myself. But I didn't have much luck
convincing the other developers that it's a bad idea to set things up
that way, rather than writing just a small number of config files.
We're going to have to deal with the problem though if we ever want
to be able to build in a separate directory tree...
regards, tom lane