Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com> writes:
> David Fetter wrote:
>> This is 2008, and it's silly to pretend we need to support this
>> "requirement" on systems where people are building Postgres.
> Maybe, or maybe not. Do these platforms all have Perl?
In this connection it might be worth pointing to the Red Hat/Fedora
definition of the standard minimum build environment:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Guidelines#Exceptions
which I can assure you is no spur-of-the-moment list but was
very carefully chosen.
It has awk, and sed ... but not perl.
regards, tom lane