"Dr. David Kirkby" <david.kirkby@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> Russ Allbery wrote:
>> "Dr. David Kirkby" <david.kirkby@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>>> Russ Allbery wrote:
>>>> That macro is using a questionable technique to accomplish this (parsing
>>>> the output of perl -v and then relying on AX_COMPARE_VERSION). Here's a
>>>> much simpler macro that accomplishes the same thing:
>>>>
>>>> AC_DEFUN([AX_PROG_PERL_VERSION],
>>>> [AC_CACHE_CHECK([for Perl version $1 or later], [ax_cv_prog_perl_version],
>>>> [AS_IF(["$PERL" -e 'require $1;' >/dev/null 2>&1], [$1], [$2])])])
Oh, doh, I'm sorry. This should be:
AC_DEFUN([AX_PROG_PERL_VERSION],
[AC_CACHE_CHECK([for Perl version $1 or later], [ax_cv_prog_perl_version],
[AS_IF(["$PERL" -e 'require $1;' >/dev/null 2>&1], [$2], [$3])])])
Stupid typo indeed.
Thanks for the configure script. That made it obvious.
--
Russ Allbery (rra@xxxxxxxxxxxx) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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