Re: Minimum Perl version requirement (was: Re: [PUSHED] Replace make_absolute_path with rel2abs in solenv)

2012-02-20 Thread Tim Retout
On 20 February 2012 16:07, Michael Meeks wrote: >        I poked Fridrich, the oracle on this sort of thing - wrt. our old > build-systems. On windows we have perl 5.10 but on Linux 5.8.8 ( we have > an artificially old Linux machine to produce forward-compatible builds). There are some nice thin

Re: Minimum Perl version requirement (was: Re: [PUSHED] Replace make_absolute_path with rel2abs in solenv)

2012-02-20 Thread Michael Meeks
Hi Tim, On Mon, 2012-02-20 at 13:47 +, Tim Retout wrote: > $ corelist File::Spec Nice :-) > Which leads to the question: what is the minimum version of Perl we > can rely on in LibreOffice? Currently configure.in checks for Perl 5, I poked Fridrich, the oracle on this s

Minimum Perl version requirement (was: Re: [PUSHED] Replace make_absolute_path with rel2abs in solenv)

2012-02-20 Thread Tim Retout
On 20 February 2012 11:30, Michael Meeks wrote: > On Sun, 2012-02-19 at 14:39 +, Tim Retout wrote: >        Great :-) thanks for that, it's always nice to use standard methods > instead of custom / hand-coded ones. Clearly we want to introduce new > perl dependencies on shared modules only wit

[PUSHED] Replace make_absolute_path with rel2abs in solenv

2012-02-20 Thread Michael Meeks
Hi Tim, On Sun, 2012-02-19 at 14:39 +, Tim Retout wrote: > These three patches remove some home-grown path manipulation from > solenv, and replace it with functions shipped with the Perl core. Great :-) thanks for that, it's always nice to use standard methods instead of custom / hand