We have quite a number of ports (183 at a rough count) that produce
this error during configure:
checking for perl... /usr/bin/perl
checking for perl >= 5.8.1... Can't find string terminator '"' anywhere before
EOF at -e line 1.
It's harmless, I guess, but annoying. It's from some autoconf macro
that checks the availability of perl for intltool purposes. The
expanded sh snippet is this:
------->
if test -z "$INTLTOOL_PERL"; then
as_fn_error "perl not found" "$LINENO" 5
fi
{ $as_echo "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: checking for perl >= 5.8.1" >&5
$as_echo_n "checking for perl >= 5.8.1... " >&6; }
$INTLTOOL_PERL -e "use 5.8.1;" > /dev/null 2>&1
if test $? -ne 0; then
as_fn_error "perl 5.8.1 is required for intltool" "$LINENO" 5
else
IT_PERL_VERSION="`$INTLTOOL_PERL -e \"printf '%vd', $^V\"`"
{ $as_echo "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: result: $IT_PERL_VERSION" >&5
$as_echo "$IT_PERL_VERSION" >&6; }
fi
<-------
Specifically, the line
IT_PERL_VERSION="`$INTLTOOL_PERL -e \"printf '%vd', $^V\"`"
should be the one throwing the error. However, I can't find anything
wrong there. The nested quoting is tricky, but it works just fine
if I run it on the sh command line.
Any ideas?
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Christian "naddy" Weisgerber [email protected]
