Perl v5.6.0 breaks the configure script
Prof Brian D Ripley writes:
On Wed, 5 Apr 2000, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
On Wed, Apr 05, 2000 at 10:31:57AM +0100, Prof Brian D Ripley wrote:
On Wed, 5 Apr 2000, tom kennedy wrote:
[..]
I think the trick is to use perl itself, as in
perl_version=`${PERL} -e '$v=$]; $v =~ s/(.)\..*/\1/;print $v'`
as perl is guaranteed to return its version as a number like 5.006
even for `v5.6.0'.
Unfortunately the "]" in there confuses m4 when building configure
from aclocal.m4, but I am sure the experts can fix that.
Guess this means that I am not an autoconf expert any more.
One would be to use the English module and PERL_VERSION instead:
perl_version=
= `${PERL}-MEnglish -e '$v=$PERL_VERSION; $v =~ s/(.)\..*/\1/;print $v'`
One could even do the whole test in Perl:
r_cv_prog_perl_v5=
`${PERL} -e 'if($] >= 5) {print "yes";} else {print "no"}'`
Likewise:
r_cv_prog_perl_v5=
`${PERL} -MEnglish -e 'if($] >= 5) {print "yes";} else {print "no"}'`
Um, not that but I think we know what you meant!
Yes, I know and I considered that, but I do not think the English module is guaranteed to be present. This is a test of the Perl version, and as far as I could see -MEnglish does not work in Perl 4. (The -M flag is not in the Quick Reference Guide for 4.019.) So I think your version assumes the thing it is testing for, Perl 5.x.
I also think we should not assume that English is there.
Anyway, I tried adding a line of code to configure.in which uses $], but
I failed miserably ... I would either get M4 syntax errors or not get
the `]'. Hence, I changed the test to
AC_CACHE_CHECK([whether perl version is at least 5],
r_cv_prog_perl_v5,
[ ${PERL} -e 'require 5' 2>/dev/null
if test ${?} -eq 0; then
r_cv_prog_perl_v5=yes
else
r_cv_prog_perl_v5=no
fi
])
which I think should also do the job.
Changed in r-devel only. If anyone thinks we should also do this in
r-release for 1.0.1, pls let me know && I will make the change (assuming
that the fix is correct).
-k
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