Re: perl 5.8 breaks autoconf 2.5

[Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>]

On Thu, Aug 29, 2002 at 12:10:41PM +0200, Marek Habersack wrote:
>   perl-base contains Data/Dumper.pm, that in turn wants to use bytes.pm
> which used to be in perl-modules for perl 5.6 - it doesn't exists in
> perl-modules for 5.8.

  $ dlocate bytes.pm
  perl-modules: /usr/share/perl/5.8.0/bytes.pm
  $ dpkg -l perl-modules | grep ^ii
  ii  perl-modules   5.8.0-8        Core Perl modules.

> Dumper is used by autom4te in autoconf 2.53 - can anybody _please_ fix
> it?

Works for me, even when forcing it to encounter the piece of code that
does 'use bytes;':

  $ perl -MData::Dumper -e '$Data::Dumper::Useqq = 1; print Dumper($^X)'
  $VAR1 = "/usr/bin/perl";

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Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]