On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 07:28:07PM +0200, Dagobert Michelsen wrote: > Hi Andrew, > > I see a number of problems with this approach: > - It is not desirable to enable this on all platforms as there may be > no perl in /usr/bin, so it should be possible to disable it during configure > - perl may be in another location > > A solution with a generic program transformation similar to other GNU tools > (although during configure) like > --program-transform-name=PROGRAM run sed PROGRAM on installed program > names > would IMHO be more flexible and wouldn't require hardcoding any pathes. > Just to be clear: I would expect this solution directly to wget to transform > output file names and pathes.
Yes, (as I said in the previous email!), I would make that change if the patch were going in.
