From 45ed6c8a72e87f33d37d8af19268ae9fb1dd3bff Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
Date: Tue, 27 May 1997 04:58:45 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] disallow use of perl 5.001

---
 ChangeLog    | 2 ++
 configure    | 6 ++++--
 configure.in | 6 ++++--
 3 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 9d0c7631..954247c4 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 Mon May 26 22:50:49 1997  Tom Tromey  <tromey@cygnus.com>
 
+	* configure.in: Error if Perl 5.001 is used.
+
 	* ylwrap: Don't quote $prog when executing it.  From Jim
 	Meyering.
 
diff --git a/configure b/configure
index e641b189..286ba524 100755
--- a/configure
+++ b/configure
@@ -824,8 +824,10 @@ else
 fi
 
 if test -z "$PERL"; then
-   echo "fatal error: perl not found" 1>&2
-   exit 1
+   { echo "configure: error: perl not found" 1>&2; exit 1; }
+fi
+if test -n "`$PERL -v | fgrep 'version 5.001' 2> /dev/null`"; then
+   { echo "configure: error: perl 5.001 has bug which causes automake to fail" 1>&2; exit 1; }
 fi
 
 trap '' 1 2 15
diff --git a/configure.in b/configure.in
index 6b0ba6ea..ed75eb10 100644
--- a/configure.in
+++ b/configure.in
@@ -8,8 +8,10 @@ AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE(automake, 1.1p)
 AC_CHECK_PROGS(TAR, gnutar gtar tar)
 AC_PATH_PROG(PERL, perl)
 if test -z "$PERL"; then
-   echo "fatal error: perl not found" 1>&2
-   exit 1
+   AC_MSG_ERROR([perl not found])
+fi
+if test -n "`$PERL -v | fgrep 'version 5.001' 2> /dev/null`"; then
+   AC_MSG_ERROR([perl 5.001 has bug which causes automake to fail])
 fi
 
 AC_OUTPUT([Makefile automake aclocal m4/Makefile tests/Makefile],
-- 
2.43.5