[Autoconf-patches] Re: autoscan repair

[Johan Vromans]

[Quoting Peter Eisentraut, on September 17 2000, 15:03, in "Re: autoscan 
repair"]
> > Please consider upgrading your Perl and/or Getopt::Long packages.
> 
> But it's not really an option to tell that to all users before they can
> install Autoconf, no?

I cannot comment on that.

However, if you want to require a certain minimal version of a product
please be careful to use the documentation of _that_ version, not of a
newer version.

Perl 5.004_04 comes with Getopt::Long 2.16.
The Configure routine was added in 2.17.

[Quoting Akim Demaille, on September 4 2000, 16:55, in "Re: autoscan repair"]
> Arg, I actually trusted the documentation, thanks!
> 
> CONFIGURATION OPTIONS
>        GetOptions can be configured by calling subroutine
> ===>   Getopt::Long::Configure. This subroutine takes a list of

-- Johan