bug#52844: closed (missing perl not recognized properly by configure)

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> missing perl not recognized properly by configure
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> Tue, 28 Dec 2021 10:07:51 +0300
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> Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/29.0.50 (gnu/linux)
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> On my systems without perl,  PERL is set to something like
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>   ${SHELL} '/usr/src/coreutils-9.0/build-aux/missing'  perl
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> which causes condition at line 70 in configure.ac to fail, resulting in
> incorrect detection of perl and subsequent build failure. Suggested fix:
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> diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
> index 9b8ea0dde..f6a7a6917 100644
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>  # FIXME: this is suboptimal.  Ideally, we would be able to call gl_PERL
>  # with an ACTION-IF-NOT-FOUND argument ...
>  cu_have_perl=yes
> -case $PERL in *"/missing "*) cu_have_perl=no;; esac
> +case $PERL in */missing*) cu_have_perl=no;; esac
>  AM_CONDITIONAL([HAVE_PERL], [test $cu_have_perl = yes])
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>  # gl_GCC_VERSION_IFELSE([major], [minor], [run-if-found], [run-if-not-found])
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--- Begin Message --- Subject: Re: bug#52844: missing perl not recognized properly by configure Date: Tue, 28 Dec 2021 02:08:22 -0800 User-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:91.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/91.3.1

On 12/27/21 23:07, Serge Belyshev wrote:

-case $PERL in *"/missing "*) cu_have_perl=no;; esac
+case $PERL in */missing*) cu_have_perl=no;; esac

Thanks for the bug report and suggested fix. On the whole I think it'd be better to address the nearby FIXME instead, so I did that by installing this into Gnulib:

https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gnulib.git/commit/?id=8220e0f0b5f46ff61e1d19f8a1614508fa162abd

and the attached into Coreutils. Please give it a try. In the meantime I'll assume this will fix the bug for you and so am boldly closing the bug report; if that's wrong we can reopen it.

0001-build-update-gnulib-submodule-to-latest.patch
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0002-build-be-more-careful-about-Perl.patch
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