R help - Feb 1998 - 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 detect version 5.

I believe that the value of $PERL is otherwise propagated to the build scripts.

Thanks,

Gordon



 
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Thanks very much for the bug report, I've fixed it as you suggested
... should be in tomorrow's snapshot.

Best & thanks again,
Fritz

>>>>> On Tue, 10 Feb 1998 17:52:44 GMT,
>>>>> Gordon Maclean (GM) wrote:
GM> One minor request, on the subject of installation scripts.
GM> Could you change "configure" to use the value of $PERL,
GM> when it checks for the version number?  

GM>   PERL_VERSION_NUMBER=`$PERL -v | sed -n 's/^.*perl.*version
\(.\).*/\1/p'
GM>   
GM> rather than:

GM>   PERL_VERSION_NUMBER=`perl -v | sed -n 's/^.*perl.*version
\(.\).*/\1/p'`


GM> On our systems, plain perl is version 4, and we must set PERL to
"perl5"
GM> in config.site. Then the above version check fails to detect version 5.

GM> I believe that the value of $PERL is otherwise propagated to the build
scripts.

GM> Thanks,

GM> Gordon



 
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