Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <20020913154239.90595.qmail@web21002.mail.yahoo.com> Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2002 08:42:39 -0700 (PDT) From: Nicholas Wourms Subject: Re: (setup.ini) autoconf requires Perl? To: "Patrick J. LoPresti" Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii --- "Patrick J. LoPresti" wrote: > Nicholas Wourms 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@www.gnu.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 __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! News - Today's headlines http://news.yahoo.com -- 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/