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From: "Robinow, David" <drobinow AT dayton DOT adroit DOT com>
To: "'Nicholas Wourms'" <nwourms AT yahoo DOT com>, cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: RE: (setup.ini) autoconf requires Perl?
Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2002 17:02:27 -0400
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> From: Nicholas Wourms [mailto:nwourms AT yahoo DOT com]
> Subject: RE: (setup.ini) autoconf requires Perl?
> --- "Robinow, David" <drobinow AT dayton DOT adroit DOT 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.
 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".

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