FVWM: check for perl in configure

[Dan Espen]

Hi,
I'm almost ashamed of reporting this... At $WORK, the version of perl
in $PATH is 5.6. This is okay for ./configure, which check for
REQUIRED_PERL_VERSION=5.004 (in configure.ac), but fvwm-menu-desktop
actually require 5.8.
Yes I know, the correct fix is to provide a decent version of perl to
FVWM, but still you may want to update the configure script.

Send Fvwm issues to ***@fvwm.org.

The latest version of fvwm-menu-desktop is written in python.

Thanks.

[Fred]

Post by Dan Espen

I'm almost ashamed of reporting this... At $WORK, the version of perl
in $PATH is 5.6. This is okay for ./configure, which check for
REQUIRED_PERL_VERSION=5.004 (in configure.ac), but fvwm-menu-desktop
actually require 5.8.
Yes I know, the correct fix is to provide a decent version of perl to
FVWM, but still you may want to update the configure script.

The latest version of fvwm-menu-desktop is written in python.

I just downloaded fvwm-2.6.5 and fvwm-2.6.5/bin/fvwm-menu-desktop is
written in perl ?

[Dan Espen]

Post by Fred

Post by Dan Espen

I'm almost ashamed of reporting this... At $WORK, the version of perl
in $PATH is 5.6. This is okay for ./configure, which check for
REQUIRED_PERL_VERSION=5.004 (in configure.ac), but fvwm-menu-desktop
actually require 5.8.
Yes I know, the correct fix is to provide a decent version of perl to
FVWM, but still you may want to update the configure script.

The latest version of fvwm-menu-desktop is written in python.

I just downloaded fvwm-2.6.5 and fvwm-2.6.5/bin/fvwm-menu-desktop is
written in perl ?

Sorry. Try:

ftp://ftp.fvwm.org/pub/fvwm/devel/snapshots/fvwm-snap-20121011.tar.gz

Can't say when I'll create a release. One of these days...

[Thomas Funk]

Post by Dan Espen
ftp://ftp.fvwm.org/pub/fvwm/devel/snapshots/fvwm-snap-20121011.tar.gz
Can't say when I'll create a release. One of these days...

Unfortunately bin/fvwm-menu-desktop-config.fpl is missing in the
snapshot. I stumbled over that yesterday as I tried to installing it.
So, CVS have to be used until it is fixed :(

Thomas F.