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| author | Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> | 1999-12-09 15:54:59 +0000 |
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| committer | Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> | 1999-12-09 15:54:59 +0000 |
| commit | fc8e7363d287b8ccbc9f8eb259caa7747674f501 (patch) | |
| tree | 679e1b84d9e7c61e2353fc17c0fb8fa8915d64c1 /m4 | |
| parent | 022194de490e054c3be1669f1a0063cf8cceae1d (diff) | |
| download | coreutils-fc8e7363d287b8ccbc9f8eb259caa7747674f501.tar.xz | |
Require that File::Compare be available, too.
Too many systems seem to lack it.
Diffstat (limited to 'm4')
| -rw-r--r-- | m4/perl.m4 | 12 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/m4/perl.m4 b/m4/perl.m4 index 0cc681ccd..7d6abc34a 100644 --- a/m4/perl.m4 +++ b/m4/perl.m4 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -#serial 1 +#serial 2 dnl From Jim Meyering. dnl Find a new-enough version of Perl. @@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ AC_DEFUN(jm_PERL, for perl in $candidate_perl_names; do # Run test in a subshell; some versions of sh will print an error if # an executable is not found, even if stderr is redirected. - if ( $perl -e 'require 5.003' ) > /dev/null 2>&1; then + if ( $perl -e 'require 5.003; use File::Compare' ) > /dev/null 2>&1; then PERL=$perl found=yes break @@ -33,7 +33,9 @@ AC_DEFUN(jm_PERL, AC_MSG_RESULT($found) test $found = no && AC_MSG_WARN([ -*** You don't seem to have perl5.003 or newer installed. -*** Because of that, you may be unable to regenerate certain files -*** if you modify the sources from which they are derived.] ) +*** You don't seem to have perl5.003 or newer installed, or you lack +*** a usable version of the Perl File::Compare module. As a result, +*** you may be unable to run a few tests or to regenerate certain +*** files if you modify the sources from which they are derived. +] ) ]) |