Mail Archives: cygwin/2002/09/13/15:36:13
> From: Patrick J. LoPresti [mailto:patl AT curl DOT com]
> Subject: Re: (setup.ini) autoconf requires Perl?
> Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com> writes:
> > Please disabuse yourself of the notion that we will be changing the
cygwin
> > installation to solve your problems. It is not going to happen.
>
> "My" problem is that two different programs have the same name. I
You have failed to demonstrate that this is an actual problem.
> understand now why Cygwin Perl needs the .exe to function correctly.
> And anyway, I was not really expecting to see anything change,
> including your legendary attitude. (When hundreds of people tell him
> he's an ass, a wise man will consider that maybe, just maybe, he is
> doing something wrong.)
I do not feel that a definitive statement of direction
from the leader of a project constitutes being an ass.
He even said please!
>
> The correct solution is probably for ActivePerl to have been named
> something else, like "ActivePerl.exe". And autoconf should not depend
> on Perl in the first place, since it is not a standard Unix utility.
> But I do not expect either of those things to change, either.
Nothing is stopping you.
mv /c/perl/bin/perl.exe /c/perl/bin/ActivePerl.exe
Your statement about autoconf depending on perl is just silly.
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