From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Date: Tue, 28 Dec 2021 10:03:21 +0000 (-0800)
Subject: build: be more careful about Perl
X-Git-Tag: v9.1~157
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=aa670bed50dc213fa947cc009801f9708e37e675;p=thirdparty%2Fcoreutils.git

build: be more careful about Perl

Problem reported by Serge Belyshev (Bug#52844).
* configure.ac (HAVE_PERL): Rely on latest Gnulib gl_PERL, which
sets gl_cv_prog_perl.
---

diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 9b8ea0dde7..b982d7e9ac 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -64,11 +64,7 @@ gl_INIT
 coreutils_MACROS
 
 # The test suite needs to know if we have a working perl.
-# FIXME: this is suboptimal.  Ideally, we would be able to call gl_PERL
-# with an ACTION-IF-NOT-FOUND argument ...
-cu_have_perl=yes
-case $PERL in *"/missing "*) cu_have_perl=no;; esac
-AM_CONDITIONAL([HAVE_PERL], [test $cu_have_perl = yes])
+AM_CONDITIONAL([HAVE_PERL], [test "$gl_cv_prog_perl" != no])
 
 # gl_GCC_VERSION_IFELSE([major], [minor], [run-if-found], [run-if-not-found])
 # ------------------------------------------------