Command `perl --version` says, e.g., “This is perl 5, version 26, subversion 0 (v5.26.0)”, which older versions of Meson interpret as version 26. This will be fixed in Meson 1.7.0, but at the time of writing that isn’t yet released. If we run `perl -V:version` we get the unambiguous response “version='5.26.0';”, but we need at least Meson 1.5.0 to be able to do that. Note that Perl are seriously considering dropping the leading 5 entirely in the near future (https://perl.github.io/PPCs/ppc0025-perl-version/), but that shouldn’t affect us. Signed-off-by: Peter Oliver <git@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Co-authored-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@xxxxxx> --- meson.build | 17 ++++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/meson.build b/meson.build index f01d81b39f..fd19d348c6 100644 --- a/meson.build +++ b/meson.build @@ -755,7 +755,22 @@ endif # Note that we only set NO_PERL if the Perl features were disabled by the user. # It may not be set when we have found Perl, but only use it to run tests. -perl = find_program('perl', version: '>=5.26.0', dirs: program_path, required: perl_required) +# +# At the time of writing, executing `perl --version` results in a string +# similar to the following output: +# +# This is perl 5, version 40, subversion 0 (v5.40.0) built for x86_64-linux-thread-multi +# +# Meson picks up the "40" as version number instead of using "v5.40.0" +# due to the regular expression it uses. This got fixed in Meson 1.7.0, +# but meanwhile we have to either use `-V:version` instead of `--version`, +# which we can do starting with Meson 1.5.0 and newer, or we have to +# match against the minor version. +if meson.version().version_compare('>=1.5.0') + perl = find_program('perl', dirs: program_path, required: perl_required, version: '>=5.26.0', version_argument: '-V:version') +else + perl = find_program('perl', dirs: program_path, required: perl_required, version: '>=26') +endif perl_features_enabled = perl.found() and get_option('perl').allowed() if perl_features_enabled build_options_config.set('NO_PERL', '') -- 2.48.1
