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

[Russ Allbery]

"Dr. David Kirkby" <address@hidden> 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],
[AC_CACHE_CHECK([for Perl version $1 or later], [ax_cv_prog_perl_version],
    [AS_IF(["$PERL" -e 'require $1;' >/dev/null 2>&1],
        [ax_cv_prog_perl_version=yes],
        [ax_cv_prog_perl_version=no])])
 AS_IF([test x"$ax_cv_prog_perl_version" = xyes], [$2], [$3])])

> If you do get a bit of code that works, would you release it under the
> GPL2? I know it probably seems a bit pointless asking on such a small
> bit of code, but it would be good to know.

Not the GPL v2, because I have a personal rule against ever releasing code
under a license that's longer than the code.  :)  I think the GPL v2 is a
rather ridiculous license for Autoconf macros, at least ones that aren't
of the size and complexity of, say, Automake or Libtool's.

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Russ Allbery (address@hidden)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>