perl-module: Additional fixes for Perl version number on PSPP autobuilder.

[pspp-builds.git] / acinclude.m4

diff --git a/acinclude.m4 b/acinclude.m4
index a3275a32afd4be6c3427deee8ef07b29b17258af..307ce149a4344f3f5e373146cac3fefea7b5a08c 100644 (file)
--- a/acinclude.m4
+++ b/acinclude.m4
@@ -34,6 +34,13 @@ AC_DEFUN([PSPP_PERL],
   if test "$PERL" != no && $PERL -e 'require 5.005_03;'; then :; else
     PSPP_REQUIRED_PREREQ([Perl 5.005_03 (or later)])
   fi
+
+  # The PSPP autobuilder appends a build number to the PSPP version number,
+  # e.g. "0.7.2-build40".  But Perl won't parse version numbers that contain
+  # anything other than digits and periods, so "-build" causes an error.  So we
+  # define $(VERSION_FOR_PERL) that drops everything from the hyphen onward.
+  VERSION_FOR_PERL=`echo "$VERSION" | sed 's/-.*//'`
+  AC_SUBST([VERSION_FOR_PERL])
 ])
 
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