Re: BUG #14033: cross-compilation to ARM fails

Christoph Berg <myon@debian.org> writes:
> My idea was to see if pg_config could be rewritten in sh or perl
> instead so it could run both on the host and the build architecture,
> but I never got around to actually implementing something. (And
> there's the obvious problem that pg_config also needs to run on
> Windows, so sh is probably out, if we'd want to have this included in
> core. Maybe perl?)

I can't see us taking either of those answers.  We haven't been willing
to accept a hard dependency on perl at build time, why would we do so
at run time?

Not sure what to do instead though :-(.

            regards, tom lane