Re: VS 2015 support in src/tools/msvc

Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> writes:
> On 03/08/2016 10:43 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
>> However, there definitely *is* a hard requirement on perl for Windows
>> builds, even from tarballs, and I thought this patch was only about
>> the Windows build?

> Michael's patch proposes to replace the use of sed to generate probes.h 
> with the perl equivalent everywhere. That has the advantage that we keep 
> to one script to generate probes.h, but it does impose a perl dependency.

Meh.

> We could get around that by shipping probes.h in tarballs, which seems 
> like a perfectly reasonable thing to do.

Well, it'd be messier than you think, because you could not just ship
a dummy probes.h, or make would think it was up to date and not replace
it even in a dtrace-using build.  You'd have to ship it as something
like "probes.dummy.h" and cp it into place at build time.

On the whole, I'd rather that this patch left the non-Windows side alone.
        regards, tom lane