Require newer perl?

[Gary V. Vaughan]

FYI...

Cheers,
        Gary

-------- Original Message --------
From: - Thu Sep 25 17:27:08 2003

To: address@hidden <address@hidden>, Gary V.Vaughan <address@hidden>
Subject: Re: 9-gary-reduce-dist-size.patch

~ On Wed, 24 Sep 2003, Gary V. Vaughan wrote:
|The attached patch reduces the size of libtool-1.5a.tar.gz as created
by 'make
|dist' from over 3 million bytes to under 2.26 million bytes... about a
25% saving.
|
|More importantly it paves the way for a move to modern autoconf and
automake,
|so you will need up to the minute CVS releases of both to bootstrap libtool
|correctly if you apply it locally.
|
|Okay to apply?

I was just cursing you for this, as I was unable to bootstrap. Of
course, that was not actually your fault :-p

I kept getting crap like this:
autoreconf: running: automake --add-missing --copy --force-missing
Can't locate object method "TIEHASH" via package
"Tie::RefHash::Nestable" at /usr/local/bin/automake line 517.
autoreconf: failed to run automake: No such file or directory

My perl is 5.6.0, so I think requiring this package is an automake screw
up, they apparently want perl-5.5 or greater, but Tie::RefHash::Nestable
is not in 5.6.0, perhaps it is in 5.6.1, it is definitely in 5.8.0 and
later (I got my copy from 5.8.1).

Looks like it is working now :)

Peter
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