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Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2002 08:42:39 -0700 (PDT)
From: Nicholas Wourms <nwourms AT yahoo DOT com>
Subject: Re: (setup.ini) autoconf requires Perl?
To: "Patrick J. LoPresti" <patl AT curl DOT com>
Cc: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
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--- "Patrick J. LoPresti" <patl AT curl DOT com> wrote:
> Nicholas Wourms <nwourms AT yahoo DOT com> writes:
> 
> > Not in autoconf 2.5x...  This version is totally dependant on
> perl
> > for all generation activities.  So setup is absolutely correct in
> > requiring perl.  AFAIK, there isn't a way to unbundle the perl
> > functionality either.  So my suggestion is to get over your
> dislike
> > of Cygwin perl and install it.  Many people have Cygwin perl and
> > ActiveState co-existing happily...
> > 
> > Quote straight from the autoconf README:
> > "Producing configuration scripts using Autoconf requires GNU M4
> and
> > Perl".
> 
> (CC'ing webmasters AT www DOT gnu DOT org)
> 
> OK, I stand corrected.  We will live with the multiple versions of
> Perl, despite the confusion this can cause.
>

Your best bet is to move the Cygwin perl.exe to a new directory which
isn't in PATH.  Then you can make a wrapper script called "perl",
which resides in bin, that parses the arguments passed to it.  I
haven't used ActiveState myself, but I'm sure there are consistant
differences between the two.  It's just a matter of pinning the
heuristics down.  If you're curious, this type of methodology is how
we allow different versions of autoconf/automake/libtool to exist on
the same machine.
[SNIP]

> P.S. How about renaming Cygwin Perl to "perl" instead of
"perl.exe"?

See above for a better solution, because it is possible there are
circumstances where Cygwin will not recognize an executable binary
without the .exe extension.

Cheers,
Nicholas

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