[ic] 4.6.5 - ./configure bug re: perl detection...

Jeff Carnahan interchange-users@lists.akopia.com
Thu May 24 16:03:00 2001


I was starting a fresh install of 4.6.5 on a development machine today, and
noticed the following:

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$ ./configure
[VERSION & LICENSE INFO SNIPPED]

Found Perl 5.006 as /usr/bin/perl

If you get a CPAN error, rerun the configuration and it
should go away.

Checking if your kit is complete...
Looks good

 Interchange V4.6.5

  Copyright (C) 1996-2001 Akopia, Inc. <info@akopia.com>

 Interchange is free under the terms of the GNU General Public License.

[NORMAL INSTALL FOLLOWS]

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Notice that it said Perl 5.006 is at /usr/bin/perl.. This is incorrect:

$ /usr/bin/perl -version

This is perl, v5.6.0 built for i686-linux

Copyright 1987-2000, Larry Wall

...

This threw me for a loop for a second, before I verified that I indeed have
perl 5.6 installed...

This is on an older Linux 2.2.12-20smp Red Hat 6.1 box.

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Jeff Carnahan - jcarnahan@networq.com