The following commit has been merged in the master branch:
commit 2e1fc0e63d20f1bf125fabb0a0f1f57316d9a80e
Author: Guillem Jover <[email protected]>
Date: Thu Sep 29 04:54:16 2011 +0200
build: Abort if the perl interpreter is not found or usable
The build system requires a perl interpreter to retrieve its library
directory path and to execute dpkg-architecture.pl.
diff --git a/m4/dpkg-progs.m4 b/m4/dpkg-progs.m4
index c71a412..616a783 100644
--- a/m4/dpkg-progs.m4
+++ b/m4/dpkg-progs.m4
@@ -1,13 +1,16 @@
# Copyright © 2005 Scott James Remnant <[email protected]>
# Copyright © 2007 Frank Lichtenheld <[email protected]>
-# Copyright © 2007, 2009 Guillem Jover <[email protected]>
+# Copyright © 2007, 2009, 2011 Guillem Jover <[email protected]>
# DPKG_PROG_PERL
# --------------
# Locate perl interpreter in the path
AC_DEFUN([DPKG_PROG_PERL],
[AC_ARG_VAR([PERL], [Perl interpreter])dnl
-AC_PATH_PROG([PERL], [perl], [/usr/bin/perl])dnl
+AC_PATH_PROG([PERL], [perl], [no])
+if test "$PERL" = "no" || test ! -x "$PERL"; then
+ AC_MSG_ERROR([cannot find the Perl interpreter])
+fi
AC_ARG_VAR([PERL_LIBDIR], [Perl library directory])dnl
PERL_LIBDIR=$($PERL -MConfig -e 'my $r = $Config{vendorlibexp};
$r =~ s/$Config{vendorprefixexp}/\$(prefix)/;
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