On Tuesday 11 August 2009 20:07:40 Dr. David Kirkby wrote: > > Try running that yourself, from the shell prompt; do you see > > what the problem is now? (Hint: you have a minor version of 8, > > but you require a much later minor version of 600 or more -- > > it's arcane, but it seems to be how perl interprets that version > > number). > > No, it seems pretty logical to me. > > putting a requirement of 5.6.0 does not generate any error. > > > drkirkby@smudge:[~] $ perl -e 'require 5.6.0' > drkirkby@smudge:[~] $ perl -e 'require 5.7.0' > drkirkby@smudge:[~] $ perl -e 'require 5.8.0' > drkirkby@smudge:[~] $ perl -e 'require 5.9.0' > Perl v5.9.0 required--this is only v5.8.4, stopped at -e line 1. Hmm. On my Ubuntu-8.04 box, I did: $ perl -e 'require 5.8' Perl v5.800.0 required (did you mean v5.008?)--this is only v5.8.8, stopped at -e line 1. which does seem arcane (to me). However: $ perl -e 'require 5.8.0' $ perl -e 'require 5.9.0' Perl v5.9.0 required--this is only v5.8.8, stopped at -e line 1. does match your experience. Sorry for any confusion. Russ has already spotted the more likely cause of your problem. -- Regards, Keith. _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@xxxxxxx http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf
