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Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2002 13:52:45 -0700 (PDT)
From: Nicholas Wourms <nwourms@yahoo.com>
Subject: RE: (setup.ini) autoconf requires Perl?
To: "Robinow, David" <drobinow@dayton.adroit.com>, cygwin@cygwin.com
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--- "Robinow, David" <drobinow@dayton.adroit.com> wrote:
> 
>  Your statement about autoconf depending on perl is just silly.
> 

Excuse me, I direct you to "vi /usr/autotools/devel/bin/autoheader". 
Then check out "autom4te" in the same directory.  The latter is
*required* to generate any configure script using autoconf 2.5x. 
Just for the archives and again for the record, perl is *required*
for autoconf.

Cheers,
Nicholas

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