2008/11/6 Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>:
> Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> writes:
>> OK, I have got to the bottom of this. It appears that the Fedora people
>> have for some reason best known to themselves decided to stop bundling
>> the ExtUtils::Embed module with base perl, as it was before.
>
> That's been true since F-9, so I'm not quite sure why Pavel's build only
> broke at F-10. FWIW the postgresql Fedora RPMs have
>
I skip F9. So I never used it.
Pavel
> BuildRequires: perl(ExtUtils::MakeMaker) glibc-devel bison flex autoconf gawk
> BuildRequires: perl(ExtUtils::Embed), perl-devel
>
> The extra Requires for MakeMaker has been there even longer.
>
>> Meanwhile, I think we should make our call to it in the config file more
>> robust, so we detect the call failure.
>
> +1. Would be a good idea to check for MakeMaker too.
>
> regards, tom lane
>