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

[Dr. David Kirkby]

Russ Allbery wrote:
> "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])])


It STILL does not work for me, though at least it is not a syntax error.


checking for perl... /usr/local/bin/perl
checking for Perl version 5.6.0 or later... no
configure: error: Sorry, your version of perl is too old
address@hidden:[~/zzz-1.2.3] $ perl -v

This is perl, v5.8.4 built for sun4-solaris-64int
(with 31 registered patches, see perl -V for more detail)


This is what I have in configure.ac



minimum_perl_version="5.6.0"
AC_PATH_PROG([PERL],[perl])
AX_PROG_PERL_VERSION([$minimum_perl_version],[],[AC_MSG_ERROR([Sorry, 
your version of perl is too old]) ])