Subject: Re: Problem building gdk-pixbuf
To: Paul Goyette <paul@whooppee.com>
From: Johnny Lam <jlam@jgrind.org>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 10/30/2001 20:35:05
On Tue, Oct 30, 2001 at 08:22:19PM -0800, Paul Goyette wrote:
> Hmmm.  Using ktrace, it seems that env successfully launched automake,
> but automake immediately tried to execve() /usr/pkg/bin/perl which was 
> not installed.
> 
> Shouldn't either automake or gdk-pixbuf have a dependancy on perl?

On my machine:

localhost [automake] -> pkg_info automake
Information for automake-1.4.5nb1:

Comment:
GNU Standards-compliant Makefile generator 
Requires:
autoconf>=2.13
m4-1.4
perl>=5.0

Description:
Automake is an experimental Makefile generator.  It was inspired by
the 4.4BSD make and include files, but aims to be portable and to
conform to the GNU standards for Makefile variables and targets.

Automake assumes the project uses autoconf.  If you want automatic
dependency tracking support, the use of GNU make is also required.

Homepage:
http://www.gnu.org/software/automake/automake.html


Did you forcibly remove perl at some point?

	Cheers,

	-- Johnny Lam <jlam@jgrind.org>