Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Date: Sat, 14 Sep 2002 10:10:44 +0100 From: Raphael To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: (setup.ini) autoconf requires Perl? Message-ID: <20020914091043.GA1072@TOOS> Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: <80575AFA5F0DD31197CE00805F650D767B22B7 AT wilber DOT adroit DOT com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <80575AFA5F0DD31197CE00805F650D767B22B7@wilber.adroit.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-Operating-System: CYGWIN_NT-5.0 TOOS 1.3.12(0.54/3/2) 2002-07-06 02:16 i686 unknown X-Note: This E-mail was scanned by Declude JunkMail (www.declude.com) for spam. On Fri, Sep 13, 2002 at 05:02:27PM -0400, Robinow, David wrote: > > From: Nicholas Wourms [mailto:nwourms AT yahoo DOT 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". Guess that was to far fetched for Mr. "Obnoxious" Wourms. He just couldn`t pass the change to put someone in his 'imaginative' place. Kind regards, Raphael --- [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus] -- 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/