Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: (setup.ini) autoconf requires Perl? References: <20020913154431.6322.qmail@web21001.mail.yahoo.com> From: "Patrick J. LoPresti" Date: 13 Sep 2002 15:09:43 -0400 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Lines: 16 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Nicholas Wourms writes: > --- Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > > If you are worried about name clashes, you're better off moving the > > ActivePerl directory to the front of your path (in /etc/profile, > > for > > example). > > That won't work, because then autoconf/automake will stop working > properly, as they expect a perl which interprets POSIX naming and > path conventions. I believe the autoconf/automake scripts use "#!/usr/bin/perl" to invoke Perl, so it should work fine. - Pat -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/