From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andrew Cagney To: Alexandre Oliva Cc: gcc@gcc.gnu.org Subject: Re: GCC depending on perl? Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2001 08:37:00 -0000 Message-id: <3BB347B0.3080100@cygnus.com> References: <3BAD48DB.50401@cygnus.com> X-SW-Source: 2001-09/msg01105.html >> I've noticed several recent changes to GCC have effectively added a >> dependency on PERL. Well, to be exact, it looks like configure probes >> for perl and certain features and then adjusts the build accordingly. > > > Perl is only used to build man pages. Man pages are included in > release tarballs, so perl is not needed to build releases. People > building off CVS are expected to have a complete build environment, > with all tools necessary to build files that are not in CVS. (I know about the pre-built manpages) A user of a distribution gets different behavour and different results depending on if and which perl they have installed. A distribution's build behavour should be far more robust than that. Andrew