[Bert Driehuis <driehuis@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 16 Aug 2000, Guy Harris wrote:

> Should we arrange that the configure script look for a Perl that
> supports the stuff we need, rather than just looking for "perl", or,
> alternatively, check that the "perl" it found is Perl 5 or better and,
> if not, tell the user that they need Perl 5 and point them at
> "http://www.perl.org/";?

My vote is to check if "perl" is Perl 5, and instruct the user to
re-rerun configure after setting the PERL environment variable to a
valid Perl 5 installation.

There is something to be said for keeping a 450K perl4 binary around
(matter of fact, on most machines I keep even two Perl5's: one that is
as pristine as I can get away with, and one with all the features I can
throw at it).

Cheers,

				-- Bert

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