Subject: Re: BUILD_DEPENDS on autoconf
To: NetBSD Packages Technical Discussion List <tech-pkg@netbsd.org>
From: Rene Hexel <rh@netbsd.org>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 06/19/2002 08:42:51
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?

  Regards
     ,
  Rene