On Tue, Nov 13, 2001 at 03:55:55PM -0500, Todd Vierling wrote:
> On Wed, 14 Nov 2001, matthew green wrote:
> 
> :    : Two problems:
> :    :
> :    : 	(1) Then we also need GNU m4.
> :
> :    ...and *perl*.
> :
> : autoconf needs perl?  since when?
> 
> Well, it does as far as pkgsrc is concerned.  Looking closer, it appears
> it's only needed by autoscan.

But will for more in the future?

autoconf/NEWS:
* Major changes in Autoconf 2.52e                       -*- outline -*-

** Requirements
  Perl 5.005 is required.
...
** Executables
- autom4te
  New, used by the Autoconf suite to cache and speed up most processing.
...
autoconf/bin/autom4te:
#! /usr/local/bin/perl -w

(+autoscan, autoheader, autoupdate)

Cheers,

Patrick