71352 - mozilla/configure needs perl 5.004 but doesn't enforce

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 66443

(SeaMonkey :: Build Config, defect, P4)

Description

[Sonja Mirtitsch]

I think the configure script should stop with an error if the perl is too old,
rather than let the following gmake run into an error.

For the NSS build we need to pull dbm and nspr, we run:

gmake -f client.mk pull_all BUILD_MODULES=dbm MOZ_CO_TAG=NSS_3_2_RTM
NSPR_CO_TAG=NSPRPUB_RELEASE_4_1
#This step pulls NSPR and dbm (the modules that NSS requires).
./configure --without-gtk --without-libIDL --without-x --enable-modules=dbm

the configure outputs:

...
checking for perl5... (cached) /tools/ns/bin/perl5
checking for minimum required perl version 5.004...
...

the following gmake fails, but if the Makefile is handedited and $(PERL) is set
to a newer version of perl it passes.

The perl found in the $PATH is an OK version, but for HPUX and AIX someone put
5.001 and 5.003 into /tools/ns/bin. I don't have write permission to this directory.

Comment 1

[cls]

Please attach config.log.

Comment 2

[cls]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 66443 ***

Comment 3

[Jon Granrose]

verified duplicate