On Sat, Aug 19, 2023 at 12:23:11AM +0200, Bruno Haible wrote: > Patrice Dumas wrote: > > > https://lwn.net/Articles/348090/ "Re: Redhat perl != perl" > > > https://lwn.net/Articles/348084/ "On properly packaging perl" > > > > This seems to be an old change that was reverted afterwards. > > This thread was in 2009. Since things are fine in CentOS 6 and 7, probably > they reverted it around 2010 (before CentOS 6) and did the same thing again > around 2014 (between CentOS 7 and CentOS 8).
I do not think so, reverting that change amounted to rename the perl package without the modules that make it perl core as another name such as perl-interpreter, which is the situation today. > In my CentOS 8-stream installation: > > $ rpm -q --requires perl > package perl is not installed > $ rpm -q --requires perl-interpreter | grep Unicode > perl(Unicode::Normalize) > > Apparently there is a smaller package than 'perl', called 'perl-interpreter', > and this is the one that I have installed. And this package depends on > perl-Unicode-Normalize but not one perl-Unicode-Collate. Why? Probably > because of the size: perl-Unicode-Normalize is 1 MB large, > perl-Unicode-Collate > weighs 5 MB. Indeed, this is a small perl that do not contain all the perl core modules. > Then the right thing is a configure test, that aborts the configuration > with a message like "Your perl installations lacks the Unicode::Collate > module. > If you are on a Red Hat distribution, try installing the perl-Unicode-Collate > package." I do not think that we should say something like that (if we did, we should propose to install the perl package actually). I propose the attached patch. -- Pat
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac index 1c7f337400..e996ced210 100644 --- a/configure.ac +++ b/configure.ac @@ -61,14 +61,14 @@ AC_ARG_VAR([PERL_EXT_LDFLAGS], [Linker flags for a Perl extension]) AC_ARG_VAR([PERL_EXT_CC], [Compiler for a Perl extension]) AC_MSG_CHECKING([Perl version and modules]) -if $PERL -e "use 5.008_001; use Encode; use Data::Dumper" >/dev/null 2>&1; then +if $PERL -e "use 5.008_001; use Encode; use Data::Dumper; use Unicode::Collate" >/dev/null 2>&1; then perl_version_requirement='yes' else perl_version_requirement='no' fi AC_MSG_RESULT($perl_version_requirement) if test z"$perl_version_requirement" = 'zno' ; then - AC_MSG_ERROR([perl >= 5.8.1 with Encode and Data::Dumper required by Texinfo.]) + AC_MSG_ERROR([perl >= 5.8.1 with Encode, Data::Dumper and Unicode::Collate required by Texinfo.]) fi
