On 03/02/2012 07:08 AM, Eric Blake wrote: > Paul, would it be okay if for autoconf we > borrow the same configure check as automake is using, and globally bump > the requirement to be consistent across the autotools?
Sure. If I understand things correctly, that means 'configure' will complain that Perl is out of date, and 'configure' will fail with a nice diagnostic. That's good enough for me.