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From:	"Robinow, David" <drobinow AT dayton DOT adroit DOT com>
To:	cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject:	RE: (setup.ini) autoconf requires Perl?
Date:	Fri, 13 Sep 2002 13:46:35 -0400
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> From: Patrick J. LoPresti [mailto:patl AT curl DOT com]
> Subject: Re: (setup.ini) autoconf requires Perl?
> Heuristics are often a poor design.  The author of the Perl code knows
> which version she wants; she should have a way to specify it.
> 
> "perl" vs. "perl.exe" is not a perfect solution, but it is at least as
> good as any of the others I have seen.
 /proc/registry/HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SOFTWARE/Perl/BinDir contains the path to
ActiveState Perl
(/proc/registry/HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SOFTWARE/ActiveState/ActivePerl also
points to it indirectly)
 Somebody more industrious than I could write a script to invoke it.
 Once you find yourself in perl,  $^O  returns "MSWin32" for ActivePerl and
"cygwin" for guess what.

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