Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Replace duplicate_oids with Perl implementation

On 11/12/2013 09:01 PM, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> On Sun, 2013-11-10 at 18:12 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
>> Perhaps, if we're worried about people keeping perl somewhere other
>> than /usr/bin.  However, the most likely reason for having a
>> /usr/local/bin/perl or whatever is that it's a newer and shinier one
>> than what's in /usr/bin.  Since we're only interested in bog-standard
>> perl, there's no real reason for us to want to pick up the local one.
> After the Perl version of duplicate_oids was committed, some non-Windows
> build farm member failed because it didn't have perl in /usr/bin.  So
> that appears to be a real issue.


As Robert pointed out, The build process should be, and now is, invoking 
it via $(PERL), so how is this still an issue?

cheers

andrew