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1998 Feb 10
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R-beta: $PERL in configure
One minor request, on the subject of installation scripts.
Could you change "configure" to use the value of $PERL,
when it checks for the version number?
PERL_VERSION_NUMBER=`$PERL -v | sed -n 's/^.*perl.*version \(.\).*/\1/p'
rather than:
PERL_VERSION_NUMBER=`perl -v | sed -n 's/^.*perl.*version \(.\).*/\1/p'`
On our systems, plain perl is version 4, and we must set PERL to "perl5"
in config.site. Then the above version check fails to...