On Sat, Jul 25, 2015 at 3:27 AM, Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> wrote:
>
> On 07/24/2015 01:27 PM, Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
>>
>> On 06/25/2015 07:40 AM, Michael Paquier wrote:
>>>
>>> On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 3:39 PM, Michael Paquier wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Here is v6, a rebased version on HEAD (79f2b5d). There were some
>>>> conflicts with the indentation and some other patches related to
>>>> pg_rewind and initdb's tests.
>>>
>>>
>>> Attached is v7, rebased on 0b157a0.
>>
>>
>> Thanks! I fiddled with this a bit more, to centralize more of the
>> platform-dependent stuff to RewindTest.pm. Also, Windows doesn't have "cat"
>> and "touch" if you haven't installed MinGW, so I replaced those calls with
>> built-in perl code.
>>
>> Can you double-check that the attached still works in your environment? It
>> works for me now.
>>
>> Note: I had some trouble installing IPC::Run on my system, with
>> ActiveState Perl and MSVC. There is no PPM package of that for Windows, so I
>> had to do "cpan install IPC::Run". That downloaded the MinGW C compiler and
>> make utility, which took a while. But some of the IPC::Run regression tests
>> failed, and the installation was aborted. I forced my way through that
>> "notest install IPC::Run". The next obstacle was that "vcregress <anything>"
>> no longer worked. It complained about finding some function in the Install
>> module. Turns out that when it installed the C compiler and make utility, it
>> also installed a module called "install" from cpan, which has the same name
>> as the PostgreSQL Install.pm module. We really should rename our module. I
>> got through that by manually removing the system install.pm module from the
>> perl installation's site directory. But after that, it worked great :-).
>>
>> We need to put some instructions in the docs on how to install IPC::Run on
>> Windows. I can write up something unless you're eager to.
>
>
>
> AFAIK all you need to do is put Run.pm in the right place. It doesn't need
> any building, IIRC, and the current version can be got from
> <http://cpansearch.perl.org/src/TODDR/IPC-Run-0.94/lib/IPC/Run.pm>
Yeah, that's exactly what I did myself and put it in a path of
PERL5LIB, and it just worked.
--
Michael