Re: configure does not find installed Perl modules

[Denis Barbier <nospam@thanx>]

On Thu, Aug 30, 2001 at 02:02:33PM -0700, Blair Zajac wrote:
> When I use WML 2.0.7 configure with the --with-openworld option to
> search for already installed Perl modules that WML needs, it does not
> properly find them.
[...]
> --- ../wml-2.0.7-orig/config/aclocal.m4	Sun Jun 17 15:44:29 2001
> +++ ./config/aclocal.m4	Thu Aug 30 13:47:01 2001
> @@ -69,12 +69,12 @@
>  TMPFILE=$tmpdir/ac.$$
>  rm -f $TMPFILE
>  cat >$TMPFILE <<'EOT'
> -eval {
> -    require $1;
> -    if ('$2' ne 'ANY') {
> -        $1->require_version('$2');
> -    }
> -};
> +my $string = 'use $1';
> +if ('$2' ne 'ANY') {
> +    $string .= ' $2';
> +}
> +$string .= ';';
> +eval $string;
>  if ([$]@) {
>      print "failed";
>  } else {
[...]

Hi Blair,

unless you tell it does not work, I will use m4 `ifelse':
   eval { require $1 ifelse($2, ANY, , $2); };
And also clean up some other constructs in config files.

Thanks for your report

-- 
Denis Barbier
WML Maintainer
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