postgresql/config/perl.m4
John Naylor 4c1532763a Bump minimum Perl version to 5.14
The oldest vendor-shipped Perl in the buildfarm is 5.14.2, which is
the last version that Debian Wheezy shipped. That OS is EOL, but we
keep it running because there is no other convenient way to test certain
non-mainstream 32-bit platforms. There is no bugfix in the 5.14.2 release
that is required, and yet it's also not the latest minor release --
that would be 5.14.4. To clarify the situation, we have thus arranged the
buildfarm to test 5.14.0. That allows configure scripts and documentation
to state 5.14 without fine print.

The MSVC build didn't check the version, since our previous minimum 5.8.3
was considered too old to check for on Windows. We will need a check for
Windows sometime during the v16 cycle, but that could be rendered moot
by the impending Meson conversion, so it seems safe to just document
the requirement for now.

Reviewed by Tom Lane
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/20220902181553.ev4pgzhubhdkguuv@awork3.anarazel.de
2022-09-14 12:37:04 +07:00

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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_WARN([
*** The installed version of Perl, $PERL, is too old to use with PostgreSQL.
*** Perl version 5.14 or later is required, but this is $pgac_perl_version.])
PERL=""
fi
fi
if test -z "$PERL"; then
AC_MSG_WARN([
*** Without Perl you will not be able to build PostgreSQL from Git.
*** You can obtain Perl from any CPAN mirror site.
*** (If you are using the official distribution of PostgreSQL then you do not
*** need to worry about this, because the Perl output is pre-generated.)])
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