Re: [HACKERS] Re: Problems compiling version 7

Peter Eisentraut <e99re41@DoCS.UU.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