This reduces the implicit requirement from 5.6.2 back to 5.6, while raising the explicit requirement to match the actual code.
* configure.ac (PERL): Fail up front if perl is too old. * NEWS: Document this. * README: Likewise. * README-hacking: Likewise. * lib/Autom4te/ChannelDefs.pm: Likewise. * lib/Autom4te/General.pm: Likewise. --- I'm pushing this to match our recent decisions, and to match automake's insistence on 5.6. NEWS | 4 +++- README | 2 +- README-hacking | 2 +- configure.ac | 4 ++-- lib/Autom4te/ChannelDefs.pm | 2 +- lib/Autom4te/General.pm | 2 +- 6 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 7447229..dbc19dc 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,7 +1,9 @@ GNU Autoconf NEWS - User visible changes. -* Noteworthy changes in release ?.? (????-??-??) [?] +* Noteworthy changes in release 2.69 (????-??-??) [?] +** Autoconf now requires perl 5.6 or better (but generated configure + scripts continue to run without perl). * Noteworthy changes in release 2.68b (2012-03-01) [beta] Released by Eric Blake, based on git versions 2.68.*. diff --git a/README b/README index 8e5eb49..6fb53a9 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ macro calls. Producing configuration scripts using Autoconf requires GNU M4 and Perl. You should install GNU M4 (version 1.4.6 or later is required; -1.4.14 or later is recommended) and Perl (5.005_03 or later) before +1.4.14 or later is recommended) and Perl (5.006 or later) before configuring Autoconf, so that Autoconf's configure script can find them. The configuration scripts produced by Autoconf are self-contained, so their users do not need to have Autoconf (or GNU diff --git a/README-hacking b/README-hacking index da57ac4..41d128d 100644 --- a/README-hacking +++ b/README-hacking @@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ tools we depend upon, including: - Automake 1.10+ <http://www.gnu.org/software/automake/> - Help2man 1.29+ <http://www.gnu.org/software/help2man/> - M4 1.4.6+ <http://www.gnu.org/software/m4/> -- Perl 5.005_03+ <http://www.cpan.org/> +- Perl 5.006+ <http://www.cpan.org/> - Texinfo 4.8+ <http://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/> The following are useful as well, if you want to be able to run commands diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac index 5bf7b9d..280cc0e 100644 --- a/configure.ac +++ b/configure.ac @@ -135,8 +135,8 @@ AC_SUBST([PERL])dnl if test "$PERL" = no; then AC_MSG_ERROR([perl is not found]) fi -$PERL -e 'require 5.005_03;' || { - AC_MSG_ERROR([Perl 5.005_03 or better is required]) +$PERL -e 'require 5.006;' || { + AC_MSG_ERROR([Perl 5.006 or better is required]) } # Find out whether the system supports flock diff --git a/lib/Autom4te/ChannelDefs.pm b/lib/Autom4te/ChannelDefs.pm index 2a1ec4a..0d5b5c4 100644 --- a/lib/Autom4te/ChannelDefs.pm +++ b/lib/Autom4te/ChannelDefs.pm @@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ shorthand function to output on specific channels. =cut -use 5.005; +use 5.006; use strict; use Exporter; diff --git a/lib/Autom4te/General.pm b/lib/Autom4te/General.pm index 02e3c87..cc5875d 100644 --- a/lib/Autom4te/General.pm +++ b/lib/Autom4te/General.pm @@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ used in several executables of the Autoconf and Automake packages. =cut -use 5.006_002; +use 5.006; use Exporter; use Autom4te::ChannelDefs; use Autom4te::Channels; -- 1.7.7.6
