Re: plperl needs upgrade for Fedora 10

Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> Tom Lane escribió:
>   
>> 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
>>
>> 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.
>>     
>
> Huh, but the requirement for ExtUtils::Embed is at runtime, so shouldn't
> it be a plain Requires instead of BuildRequires?
>
>   

No. We need ExtUtils::Embed to get the linkage flags for the build. See 
config/perl.m4

cheers

andrew