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 Message-ID: <80575AFA5F0DD31197CE00805F650D767B22B7@wilber.adroit.com> From: "Robinow, David" To: "'Nicholas Wourms'" , cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: RE: (setup.ini) autoconf requires Perl? Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2002 17:02:27 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > From: Nicholas Wourms [mailto:nwourms@yahoo.com] > Subject: RE: (setup.ini) autoconf requires Perl? > --- "Robinow, David" 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. Excuse me. My attempt at brevity has led to confusion. I was not disputing the dependency, I was disputing the contention that autoconf should not depend on perl because perl is "not a standard unix tool". -- 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/