Re: Why is this perl checking code not working for me?

2009-08-08 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
Russ Allbery wrote: "Dr. David Kirkby" 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_VE

Re: Why is this perl checking code not working for me?

2009-08-08 Thread Russ Allbery
"Dr. David Kirkby" writes: > Russ Allbery wrote: >> "Dr. David Kirkby" 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 accompli

Re: Why is this perl checking code not working for me?

2009-08-08 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
Russ Allbery wrote: "Dr. David Kirkby" writes: Russ Allbery wrote: "Dr. David Kirkby" 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 accom

Access for Developer to Solaris machines

2009-08-08 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
Sun Microsystems have donated a Sun T5240 (16 core) machine to the University of Washington for Sage development. http://www.sagemath.org/ Any *serious* developer of a project used in Sage (which includes autoconf), would be permitted access to the machine for testing autoconf. You probably

Re: Why is this perl checking code not working for me?

2009-08-08 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
Dr. David Kirkby wrote: Russ Allbery wrote: "Dr. David Kirkby" writes: Russ Allbery wrote: "Dr. David Kirkby" 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 mu

Re: How can I test if the GNU or Sun linker is used?

2009-08-08 Thread Richard Ash
On Fri, 2009-08-07 at 21:51 +0100, Dr. David Kirkby wrote: > Do you have a better idea how to tell what linker gcc uses? Why do you actually care? Surely what you want to know is what options work on the linker that you have to hand? So you will need to test the linker options you want to use, if

Re: Why is this perl checking code not working for me?

2009-08-08 Thread Russ Allbery
"Dr. David Kirkby" writes: > Oops, I marked the wrong line!! The error is on 4686 anyway, but I did not > even show that correctly. Sorry, I was really too tired when I wrote that and didn't pay attention to what I'm doing. Here's an actually tested version. AC_DEFUN([AX_PROG_PERL_VERSION], [A