Re: autoscan repair

[Peter Eisentraut]

Akim Demaille writes:

> Peter> Actually, the real problem is help2man, which fails if it can't
> Peter> execute the program, making the whole build fail.
> 
> Only in the case of CVS Autoconf or someone who changes something in
> the source of Autoconf, since the man pages are shipped.

Oh, you're right.

But perhaps it would still be cleaner to have this handled a priori:

# configure.in
AC_LANG(Perl)
AC_CHECK_FUNCS([Getopt::Long::Configure])

# autoscan.pl
do 'config.pl'

if ($have_Getopt__Long__Configure) {
    eval 'Getopt::Long::Configure(...);';
} else {
    eval 'Getopt::Long::config(...);';
}

Didn't someone say Perl was portable?

:-)    

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