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    Move interpreter shared library detection to configure · d664a10f
    Peter Eisentraut authored
    For building PL/Perl, PL/Python, and PL/Tcl, we need a shared library of
    libperl, libpython, and libtcl, respectively.  Previously, this was
    checked in the makefiles, skipping the PL build with a warning if no
    shared library was available.  Now this is checked in configure, with an
    error if no shared library is available.
    
    The previous situation arose because in the olden days, the configure
    options --with-perl, --with-python, and --with-tcl controlled whether
    frontend interfaces for those languages would be built.  The procedural
    languages were added later, and shared libraries were often not
    available in the beginning.  So it was decided skip the builds of the
    procedural languages in those cases.  The frontend interfaces have since
    been removed from the tree, and shared libraries are now available most
    of the time, so that setup makes much less sense now.
    
    Also, the new setup allows contrib modules and pgxs users to rely on the
    respective PLs being available based on configure flags.
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