Solution to (well known) problem with Rdconv.pm on Sun Solaris (PR#1093)
On Sun, 16 Sep 2001, Peter Kleiweg wrote:
Kurt Hornik scribeva...
Not sure, from a theoretical point of view: we really only require Perl version 5. But if we think that anything less than 5.005 is too buggy
which I guess means we want an implementation of the Camel book 2nd edition (`Programming Perl'), as Perl 5 is not a standard. And my understanding is that our code is legal by the Camel book, but 5.003 mis-parses it.
then let's go for the change. (Something like
${PERL} -e 'require 5.005 or exit 1'
in PERL5_CHECK() of m4/R.m4?)
I'm still using Perl 5.004, and R installs without problems.
Thanks for the confirmation.
Wouldn't like to update Perl just to install a new version of R. Perhaps a warning message would be more appropriate than an error.
Would people notice a warning in all the output from configure? This has
come up twice in the last year and a few more times before (with RedHat 5.2
as I recall). We know that 5.003 is the one that caused the last two, so I
do think
${PERL} -e 'require 5.004 or exit 1'
would be a good idea.
B
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