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Subject: Re: (setup.ini) autoconf requires Perl?
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From: "Patrick J. LoPresti" <patl AT curl DOT com>
Date: 13 Sep 2002 15:09:43 -0400
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Nicholas Wourms <nwourms AT yahoo DOT com> writes:

> --- Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu> 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

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