On Tue, Jul 12, 2022, at 10:06 AM, Eric Blake wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 10, 2022 at 03:08:57PM -0400, Zack Weinberg wrote:
>> +# That is, AClocal_PATH_PROG_GLOBS_FEATURE_CHECK([PERL], [perl-*]) will
>> +# test each program named something like 'perl-*' found anywhere on the
>> +# path. Due to the synta
On Sun, Jul 10, 2022 at 03:08:57PM -0400, Zack Weinberg wrote:
>
> This patch also makes configure search $PATH for executables named
> ‘perl5*’ and ‘perl-5.*’ if bare ‘perl’ is too old. To do this, it
> introduces a helper macro AClocal_PATH_PROG_GLOBS_FEATURE_CHECK, which
> I would *like* to pr
The minimum Perl version was raised to 5.8.0 from 5.6.0 in commit
3a9802d60156809c139e9b4620bf04917e143ee2 (but not documented as
such until e8c2d79ec42c70b6e4fa282bc0c024bf42f0585f, and not
actually *enforced* by our own configure script until, er, now)
in order to use Time::HiRes::stat.
Unfortun
