> "Dan" == Dan Kegel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Dan> Best thing to do is use the standard path, /usr/bin/perl,
Dan> and use a lowest-common-denomenator dialect of Perl,
Dan> so it works with perl4 and up (or possibly perl5, but
Dan> that might annoy some users).
We abandoned Perl 4 with the
> "Michael" == Michael Pruett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> Why do you want this?
Michael> Some users have multiple copies of Perl installed on their
Michael> systems (e.g. in /usr/bin/perl and /usr/local/bin/perl). It
Michael> is onerous to require the user to have Perl at the same
Michae
Russ Allbery wrote:
> Eric Siegerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>
>>-1. I'd *much* rather that automake use the Perl it was configured with
>>(and subsequently regression-tested with) than whatever random Perl some
>>user happens to have stuck first in their path.
>
>
> I agree. Users som
Eric Siegerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> -1. I'd *much* rather that automake use the Perl it was configured with
> (and subsequently regression-tested with) than whatever random Perl some
> user happens to have stuck first in their path.
I agree. Users sometimes have some other version of
On Tue, Jul 09, 2002 at 05:24:05PM -0700, Michael Pruett wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 09, 2002 at 06:18:31PM -0600, Tom Tromey wrote:
> > > "Michael" == Michael Pruett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >
> > Michael> Here's a small patch against automake 1.6.2 which allows
> > Michael> automake to use th
On Tue, Jul 09, 2002 at 06:18:31PM -0600, Tom Tromey wrote:
> > "Michael" == Michael Pruett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> Michael> Here's a small patch against automake 1.6.2 which allows
> Michael> automake to use the copy of Perl in the user's path (which
> Michael> may differ from the pa
> "Michael" == Michael Pruett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Michael> Here's a small patch against automake 1.6.2 which allows
Michael> automake to use the copy of Perl in the user's path (which
Michael> may differ from the path with which automake was built) as
Michael> long as that version is
Michael Pruett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Here's a small patch against automake 1.6.2 which allows automake to
> use the copy of Perl in the user's path (which may differ from the path
> with which automake was built) as long as that version is sufficiently
> recent (where sufficiently recent
Here's a small patch against automake 1.6.2 which allows automake to
use the copy of Perl in the user's path (which may differ from the path
with which automake was built) as long as that version is sufficiently
recent (where sufficiently recent here means Perl 5.6 or newer).
Michael
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