[Rd] configure doesn't find perl 5 on suse 7.2

[Albrecht Gebhardt]

On 17 Jun 2001, Peter Dalgaard BSA wrote:

> Albrecht Gebhardt <albrecht.gebhardt@uni-klu.ac.at> writes:
> 
> > R-devel:
> > 
> > ./configure doesn't find perl 5 on a SuSE 7.2 system wit perl 5.6.0
> > installed:
> 
> > this is the output of perl -v:
> > ###################################################################
> > omega:/usr/src/packages/BUILD-omega/R-devel # /usr/bin/perl -v
> > 
> > This is perl, v5.6.0 built for i586-linux
> > 
> > Copyright 1987-2000, Larry Wall
> > 
> > Perl may be copied only under the terms of either the Artistic License or
> > the
> > GNU General Public License, which may be found in the Perl 5.0 source kit.
> > 
> > Complete documentation for Perl, including FAQ lists, should be found on
> > this system using `man perl' or `perldoc perl'.  If you have access to the
> > Internet, point your browser at http://www.perl.com/, the Perl Home Page.
> > #########################################################################
> > 
> > the perl version check in the configurte script 
> > /usr/bin/perl -v | sed -n 's/^.*perl.*version \(.\).*/\1/p'
> > clearly fails, but e.g.
> > /usr/bin/perl -v | sed -n 's/^.*perl.*v\([0-9]\).*/\1/p'
> > would work.
> > 
> > Finally
> > 
> > usr/bin/perl -v | \
> >   sed -n 's/^.*perl.*v\([0-9]\).*/\1/p;s/^.*perl.*version \(.\).*/\1/p'
> > 
> > works on systems with a perl version of "perl, v5.xxx" and "perl, version
> > 5.xxx" 
> 
> ???
> 
> What version of R is that? To my knowledge we haven't used the
> sed-based check for perl versions for more than a year:
> 

Sorry, this was my fault, I mixed up R-devel.tar.gz with a very old
version laying around in my RPM_SOURCE Directory, ... I should have used
the version from my home dir.

sorry

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