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authorAndrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>2008-11-12 00:00:05 +0000
committerAndrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>2008-11-12 00:00:05 +0000
commit466368b8d00cf4a8d54270c3d12149d81badd1ab (patch)
tree1c778b38e0bf601b315edbef1217c9b1e6376531 /config/perl.m4
parentbd059c2d1d961275da4588de6c4842e109ce230a (diff)
downloadpostgresql-466368b8d00cf4a8d54270c3d12149d81badd1ab.tar.gz
Detect and error out on inability to get proper linkage information required for plperl, usually due to absence of perl ExtUtils::Embed module. Backpatch as far as 8.1.
Diffstat (limited to 'config/perl.m4')
-rw-r--r--config/perl.m412
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/config/perl.m4 b/config/perl.m4
index 55c34574eb..6ca8b524fa 100644
--- a/config/perl.m4
+++ b/config/perl.m4
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# $PostgreSQL: pgsql/config/perl.m4,v 1.3 2003/11/29 19:51:17 pgsql Exp $
+# $PostgreSQL: pgsql/config/perl.m4,v 1.4 2008/11/12 00:00:05 adunstan Exp $
# PGAC_PATH_PERL
@@ -32,4 +32,12 @@ pgac_tmp1=`$PERL -MExtUtils::Embed -e ldopts`
pgac_tmp2=`$PERL -MConfig -e 'print $Config{ccdlflags}'`
perl_embed_ldflags=`echo X"$pgac_tmp1" | sed "s/^X//;s%$pgac_tmp2%%"`
AC_SUBST(perl_embed_ldflags)dnl
-AC_MSG_RESULT([$perl_embed_ldflags])])
+if test -z "$perl_embed_ldflags" ; then
+ AC_MSG_RESULT(no)
+ AC_MSG_ERROR([could not determine flags for linking embedded Perl.
+This probably means that ExtUtils::Embed or ExtUtils::MakeMaker is not
+installed.])
+else
+ AC_MSG_RESULT([$perl_embed_ldflags])
+fi
+])# PGAC_CHECK_PERL_EMBED_LDFLAGS