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-#serial 7
-
-dnl From Jim Meyering.
-dnl Find a new-enough version of Perl.
-dnl
-
-# Copyright (C) 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003, 2004 Free Software
-# Foundation, Inc.
-#
-# This file is free software; the Free Software Foundation
-# gives unlimited permission to copy and/or distribute it,
-# with or without modifications, as long as this notice is preserved.
-
-AC_DEFUN([gl_PERL],
-[
- dnl FIXME: don't hard-code 5.003
- dnl FIXME: should we cache the result?
- AC_MSG_CHECKING([for perl5.003 or newer])
- if test "${PERL+set}" = set; then
- # `PERL' is set in the user's environment.
- candidate_perl_names="$PERL"
- perl_specified=yes
- else
- candidate_perl_names='perl perl5'
- perl_specified=no
- fi
-
- found=no
- AC_SUBST(PERL)
- PERL="$am_missing_run 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 ( $perl -e 'require 5.003; use File::Compare' ) > /dev/null 2>&1; then
- PERL=$perl
- found=yes
- break
- fi
- done
-
- AC_MSG_RESULT($found)
- test $found = no && AC_MSG_WARN([
-WARNING: 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.
-] )
-])