Re: Why is this perl checking code not working for me?

[Dr. David Kirkby]

Russ Allbery wrote:
> "Dr. David Kirkby" <address@hidden> writes:
> > Russ Allbery wrote:
> > > "Dr. David Kirkby" <address@hidden> writes:
> > > > Russ Allbery wrote:
>
> > > > > That macro is using a questionable technique to accomplish this (parsing
> > > > > the output of perl -v and then relying on AX_COMPARE_VERSION).  Here's a
> > > > > much simpler macro that accomplishes the same thing:
> > > > >
> > > > > AC_DEFUN([AX_PROG_PERL_VERSION],
> > > > > [AC_CACHE_CHECK([for Perl version $1 or later], [ax_cv_prog_perl_version],
> > > > >     [AS_IF(["$PERL" -e 'require $1;' >/dev/null 2>&1], [$1], [$2])])])
>
> Oh, doh, I'm sorry.  This should be:
>
> AC_DEFUN([AX_PROG_PERL_VERSION],
> [AC_CACHE_CHECK([for Perl version $1 or later], [ax_cv_prog_perl_version],
>     [AS_IF(["$PERL" -e 'require $1;' >/dev/null 2>&1], [$2], [$3])])])
>
> Stupid typo indeed.
>
> Thanks for the configure script.  That made it obvious.


It's still not working for me, though the error message is different 
this time.



checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E
checking for perl... /usr/local/bin/perl
checking for Perl version 5.8.0 or later... ./configure: line 4686: 
syntax error near unexpected token `fi'
./configure: line 4686: `fi'


Here's the relevant bit of the configure script, with line 4688 marked 
by a string of x's

# Be more Bourne compatible
DUALCASE=1; export DUALCASE # for MKS sh
if test -n "${ZSH_VERSION+set}" && (emulate sh) >/dev/null 2>&1; then
  emulate sh
  NULLCMD=:
"configure" 6622 lines, 190079 characters
fi   xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Line 4686


{ $as_echo "$as_me:$LINENO: checking for Perl version 5.8.0 or later" >&5
$as_echo_n "checking for Perl version 5.8.0 or later... " >&6; }
if test "${ax_cv_prog_perl_version+set}" = set; then
  $as_echo_n "(cached) " >&6
else

fi
{ $as_echo "$as_me:$LINENO: result: $ax_cv_prog_perl_version" >&5
$as_echo "$ax_cv_prog_perl_version" >&6; }


{ $as_echo "$as_me:$LINENO: checking for a sed that does not truncate 
output" >&5
$as_echo_n "checking for a sed that does not truncate output... " >&6; }
if test "${ac_cv_path_SED+set}" = set; then
  $as_echo_n "(cached) " >&6
else