Re: [GENERAL] Building PL/Perl procedural language without--with-perl configure flag

On 1/15/2017 1:15 AM, postgres user wrote:
> I am trying to build PL/Perl procedural language to my PostgreSQL 
> server installation but I want to do it without passing --with-perl 
> flag to the configure script of PostgreSQL. It would also help if 
> someone can explain the meaning of --with-perl flag in a detailed 
> fashion altogether as it might help me determine the actual process of 
> installing PL/Perl. There are two parts to the question however how do 
> I get the source of PL/Perl firstly and how do I build it against an 
> already built version of PostgreSQL as in when I have the (bin, lib, 
> share) for PostgreSQL and what all pre-requisites are needed to 
> install PL/Perl in the first place?

how was this postgres 'already built' edition installed?

the source to plperl is built into postgres, if perl is in your path, 
--with-perl should figure out where the libraries it needs are.




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