From kleiweg@let.rug.nl  Sun Sep 16 00:32:36 2001
From: kleiweg@let.rug.nl (Peter Kleiweg)
Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2001 01:32:36 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: [Rd] Solution to (well known) problem with Rdconv.pm on Sun
 Solaris (PR#1093)
In-Reply-To: <15267.36358.740330.761626@mithrandir.hornik.net>
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0109160130030.383-100000@kleigh.nl>

Kurt Hornik scribeva...

> Not sure, from a theoretical point of view: we really only require Perl
> version 5.  But if we think that anything less than 5.005 is too buggy
> then let's go for the change.  (Something like
>
> 	${PERL} -e 'require 5.005 or exit 1'
>
> in PERL5_CHECK() of m4/R.m4?)

I'm still using Perl 5.004, and R installs without problems.
Wouldn't like to update Perl just to install a new version of R.
Perhaps a warning message would be more appropriate than an
error.

-- 
Peter Kleiweg
http://www.let.rug.nl/~kleiweg/

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[Rd] Solution to (well known) problem with Rdconv.pm on Sun Solaris (PR#1093)
Peter Kleiweg