[perl #67628] [PATCH] Configure should sort inc_version_list

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In searching for previous versions of perl, Configure
forgets to sort the directories according to version number,
so 5.10 sorts later than 5.8.

Specifically, without this patch, you'd get something like:

    inc_version_list='5.8.9 5.8.8 5.10.0/i686-linux 5.10.0'

i.e. 5.10.0 would be searched *after* 5.8.8.

With this patch, you get something like:

    inc_version_list='5.10.0/i686-linux 5.10.0 5.8.9 5.8.8'

I'd appreciate someone else trying this to double-check me.

--- perl-current/Configure	2009-07-03 13:23:43.000000000 -0400
+++ perl-andy/Configure	2009-07-16 16:43:06.553763294 -0400
@@ -6529,6 +6529,7 @@
     chdir($stem);
     ;@candidates = map {
 	[ $_, pack "sss", split m/[._]/, "$_.0.0" ] } glob("5.*");
+    ;@candidates = sort { $a->[1] cmp $b->[1]} @candidates;
 }
 else {
     ;@candidates = ();

-- 
    Andy Dougherty		doughera@lafayette.edu

• [perl #67628] [PATCH] Configure should sort inc_version_list by Andy Dougherty
• Re: [perl #67628] [PATCH] Configure should sort inc_version_list by Craig A. Berry
• Re: [perl #67628] [PATCH] Configure should sort inc_version_list by Andy Dougherty
• Re: [perl #67628] [PATCH] Configure should sort inc_version_list by Craig A. Berry