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Andy Dougherty  
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 More options Jun 9 2004, 1:19 pm
Newsgroups: perl.perl6.internals
From: dough...@lafayette.edu (Andy Dougherty)
Date: Wed, 9 Jun 2004 13:19:45 -0400 (EDT)
Local: Wed, Jun 9 2004 1:19 pm
Subject: Re: [perl #30095] [PATCH] Update required build tools in README

On Wed, 9 Jun 2004, chromatic via RT wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-06-09 at 03:53, Nicholas Clark wrote:

> > The work around for (2) could be to bundle File::Spec 0.87 from CPAN.
> > For that matter the work around for (1) could be to bundle Math::BigInt
> > from CPAN. :-)

> Why bundle?  I'd be happy to add the half-dozen lines to Configure.pl to
> check for appropriate versions and bail out if they're not installed.

It's true that once we agree on the actual requirements, it'd make sense
to have Configure.pl check if the required functionality were actually
available.  Nick's suggestion is one way to keep the required version at
5.005.

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    Andy Dougherty              dough...@lafayette.edu


 
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