Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> writes:
> On 2021-10-14 18:08:58 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>> Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> writes:
>>> Hm, so it seems we should make the test separately verify that perl -M{Opcode,
>>> ExtUtils::Embed, ExtUtils::ParseXS} doesn't fail, so that we can fail perl
>>> detection with a useful message?
>> Our existing policy is that we should check this at configure time,
>> not later.
> Yea, I was thinking of configure (and meson's equivalent) as well.
Ah, sorry, I misunderstood what you meant by "test".
regards, tom lane