[ On , June 19, 2002 at 08:42:51 (+1000), Rene Hexel wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: BUILD_DEPENDS on autoconf
>
> On Wed, 2002-06-19 at 06:35, Greg A. Woods wrote:
> 
> > Perl might not be needed for just building something like sudo.  BUT:
> > 
> > Perl _IS_ needed whenever a package in pkgsrc requires modifications to
> > its GNU Auto* subsystem.  That's the way those things work.  You can try
> 
>   And that's exactly why modifications should be made to 'configure' and
> not 'configure.in/configure.am'.  Why do you think these packages came
> with pre-built scripts in the first place?

Obviously you are not a user of the GNU Auto* tools.  If you were you'd
realize that you've got things exactly backwards.

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