[ic] 4.6.5 - ./configure bug re: perl detection...

[Ed LaFrance]

At 05:32 PM 05/24/2001 -0400, you wrote:
>On Thu, 24 May 2001, Ed LaFrance wrote:
>
> > >Notice that it said Perl 5.006 is at /usr/bin/perl.. This is incorrect:
> > >
> > >$ /usr/bin/perl -version
> > >
> > >This is perl, v5.6.0 built for i686-linux
> > >
> > >Copyright 1987-2000, Larry Wall
> > >
> > >...
> > >
> > >This threw me for a loop for a second, before I verified that I indeed 
> have
> > >perl 5.6 installed...
> >
> > It is just two different ways of expressing the same version, I think; try
> > perl -V (note uppercase V) at the command line and you will see what I 
> mean.
>
>Please see 'perldoc perldelta' or 'man perldelta' and search for "Improved
>Perl version numbering system". Ed is correct that they are two ways of
>displaying the same version number: the old way and the new way.
>

And here is the way (at the command line) that probably agrees with IC 4.6.x:

perl -e 'print $]'

- Ed L.


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