postgresql/config/perl.m4
Peter Eisentraut 721856ff24 Remove distprep
A PostgreSQL release tarball contains a number of prebuilt files, in
particular files produced by bison, flex, perl, and well as html and
man documentation.  We have done this consistent with established
practice at the time to not require these tools for building from a
tarball.  Some of these tools were hard to get, or get the right
version of, from time to time, and shipping the prebuilt output was a
convenience to users.

Now this has at least two problems:

One, we have to make the build system(s) work in two modes: Building
from a git checkout and building from a tarball.  This is pretty
complicated, but it works so far for autoconf/make.  It does not
currently work for meson; you can currently only build with meson from
a git checkout.  Making meson builds work from a tarball seems very
difficult or impossible.  One particular problem is that since meson
requires a separate build directory, we cannot make the build update
files like gram.h in the source tree.  So if you were to build from a
tarball and update gram.y, you will have a gram.h in the source tree
and one in the build tree, but the way things work is that the
compiler will always use the one in the source tree.  So you cannot,
for example, make any gram.y changes when building from a tarball.
This seems impossible to fix in a non-horrible way.

Second, there is increased interest nowadays in precisely tracking the
origin of software.  We can reasonably track contributions into the
git tree, and users can reasonably track the path from a tarball to
packages and downloads and installs.  But what happens between the git
tree and the tarball is obscure and in some cases non-reproducible.

The solution for both of these issues is to get rid of the step that
adds prebuilt files to the tarball.  The tarball now only contains
what is in the git tree (*).  Getting the additional build
dependencies is no longer a problem nowadays, and the complications to
keep these dual build modes working are significant.  And of course we
want to get the meson build system working universally.

This commit removes the make distprep target altogether.  The make
dist target continues to do its job, it just doesn't call distprep
anymore.

(*) - The tarball also contains the INSTALL file that is built at make
dist time, but not by distprep.  This is unchanged for now.

The make maintainer-clean target, whose job it is to remove the
prebuilt files in addition to what make distclean does, is now just an
alias to make distprep.  (In practice, it is probably obsolete given
that git clean is available.)

The following programs are now hard build requirements in configure
(they were already required by meson.build):

- bison
- flex
- perl

Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
Reviewed-by: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/e07408d9-e5f2-d9fd-5672-f53354e9305e@eisentraut.org
2023-11-06 15:18:04 +01:00

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# config/perl.m4
# PGAC_PATH_PERL
# --------------
AC_DEFUN([PGAC_PATH_PERL],
[PGAC_PATH_PROGS(PERL, perl)
AC_ARG_VAR(PERL, [Perl program])dnl
if test "$PERL"; then
pgac_perl_version=`$PERL -v 2>/dev/null | sed -n ['s/This is perl.*v[a-z ]*\([0-9]\.[0-9][0-9.]*\).*$/\1/p']`
AC_MSG_NOTICE([using perl $pgac_perl_version])
if echo "$pgac_perl_version" | sed ['s/[.a-z_]/ /g'] | \
$AWK '{ if ([$]1 == 5 && ([$]2 >= 14)) exit 1; else exit 0;}'
then
AC_MSG_ERROR([
*** The installed version of Perl, $PERL, is too old to use with PostgreSQL.
*** Perl version 5.14 or later is required, but this is $pgac_perl_version.])
fi
fi
if test -z "$PERL"; then
AC_MSG_ERROR([Perl not found])
fi
])# PGAC_PATH_PERL
# PGAC_CHECK_PERL_CONFIG(NAME)
# ----------------------------
AC_DEFUN([PGAC_CHECK_PERL_CONFIG],
[AC_REQUIRE([PGAC_PATH_PERL])
AC_MSG_CHECKING([for Perl $1])
perl_$1=`$PERL -MConfig -e 'print $Config{$1}'`
test "$PORTNAME" = "win32" && perl_$1=`echo $perl_$1 | sed 's,\\\\,/,g'`
AC_SUBST(perl_$1)dnl
AC_MSG_RESULT([$perl_$1])])
# PGAC_CHECK_PERL_CONFIGS(NAMES)
# ------------------------------
AC_DEFUN([PGAC_CHECK_PERL_CONFIGS],
[m4_foreach([pgac_item], [$1], [PGAC_CHECK_PERL_CONFIG(pgac_item)])])
# PGAC_CHECK_PERL_EMBED_CCFLAGS
# -----------------------------
# We selectively extract stuff from $Config{ccflags}. For debugging purposes,
# let's have the configure output report the raw ccflags value as well as the
# set of flags we chose to adopt. We don't really need anything except -D
# switches, and other sorts of compiler switches can actively break things if
# Perl was compiled with a different compiler. Moreover, although Perl likes
# to put stuff like -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE and -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 here, it
# would be fatal to try to compile PL/Perl to a different libc ABI than core
# Postgres uses. The available information says that most symbols that affect
# Perl's own ABI begin with letters, so it's almost sufficient to adopt -D
# switches for symbols not beginning with underscore. Some exceptions are the
# Windows-specific -D_USE_32BIT_TIME_T and -D__MINGW_USE_VC2005_COMPAT; see
# Mkvcbuild.pm for details. We absorb the former when Perl reports it. Perl
# never reports the latter, and we don't attempt to deduce when it's needed.
# Consequently, we don't support using MinGW to link to MSVC-built Perl. As
# of 2017, all supported ActivePerl and Strawberry Perl are MinGW-built. If
# that changes or an MSVC-built Perl distribution becomes prominent, we can
# revisit this limitation.
AC_DEFUN([PGAC_CHECK_PERL_EMBED_CCFLAGS],
[AC_REQUIRE([PGAC_PATH_PERL])
AC_MSG_CHECKING([for CFLAGS recommended by Perl])
perl_ccflags=`$PERL -MConfig -e ['print $Config{ccflags}']`
AC_MSG_RESULT([$perl_ccflags])
AC_MSG_CHECKING([for CFLAGS to compile embedded Perl])
perl_embed_ccflags=`$PERL -MConfig -e ['foreach $f (split(" ",$Config{ccflags})) {print $f, " " if ($f =~ /^-D[^_]/ || $f =~ /^-D_USE_32BIT_TIME_T/)}']`
AC_SUBST(perl_embed_ccflags)dnl
AC_MSG_RESULT([$perl_embed_ccflags])
])# PGAC_CHECK_PERL_EMBED_CCFLAGS
# PGAC_CHECK_PERL_EMBED_LDFLAGS
# -----------------------------
# We are after Embed's ldopts, but without the subset mentioned in
# Config's ccdlflags and ldflags. (Those are the choices of those who
# built the Perl installation, which are not necessarily appropriate
# for building PostgreSQL.)
AC_DEFUN([PGAC_CHECK_PERL_EMBED_LDFLAGS],
[AC_REQUIRE([PGAC_PATH_PERL])
AC_MSG_CHECKING(for flags to link embedded Perl)
if test "$PORTNAME" = "win32" ; then
perl_lib=`basename $perl_archlibexp/CORE/perl[[5-9]]*.lib .lib`
if test -e "$perl_archlibexp/CORE/$perl_lib.lib"; then
perl_embed_ldflags="-L$perl_archlibexp/CORE -l$perl_lib"
else
perl_lib=`basename $perl_archlibexp/CORE/libperl[[5-9]]*.a .a | sed 's/^lib//'`
if test -e "$perl_archlibexp/CORE/lib$perl_lib.a"; then
perl_embed_ldflags="-L$perl_archlibexp/CORE -l$perl_lib"
fi
fi
else
pgac_tmp1=`$PERL -MExtUtils::Embed -e ldopts`
pgac_tmp2=`$PERL -MConfig -e 'print "$Config{ccdlflags} $Config{ldflags}"'`
perl_embed_ldflags=`echo X"$pgac_tmp1" | sed -e "s/^X//" -e "s%$pgac_tmp2%%"`
fi
AC_SUBST(perl_embed_ldflags)dnl
if test -z "$perl_embed_ldflags" ; then
AC_MSG_RESULT(no)
AC_MSG_ERROR([could not determine flags for linking embedded Perl.
This probably means that ExtUtils::Embed or ExtUtils::MakeMaker is not
installed.])
else
AC_MSG_RESULT([$perl_embed_ldflags])
fi
])# PGAC_CHECK_PERL_EMBED_LDFLAGS