Raymond Toy writes:
>> Since this is pretty crucial for building everything, perhaps it would
>> be a good idea for configure to test that perl 5.8 and makeinfo 4.8 are
>> available? Then we don't have to deal with error reports like mine with
>> ancient versions of perl and makeinfo. :-)
>
> Yes, this is certainly right thing to do!
> I'll try implement it in configure.
>
My promise turned out to be a bit premature.
Autoconf provides built-in method to check for
some program but not for particular version
of the program. An I don't see a simple way to do
such check. Parse makeinfo --version or perl --version
output? But it seems to be quite unreliable
for this output may vary from version to version
substantially.
I'll try to figure out something but it won't be quick.
Vadim
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