* Christian Weisgerber <na...@mips.inka.de> [100915 11:04]:
> 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?
>
> --
> Christian "naddy" Weisgerber na...@mips.inka.de
>
I get the same error with:
perl -e \"printf '%vd', $^V\"
but it works if I remove the quote escapes:
perl -e "printf '%vd', $^V"
jim@
