On 10/24/2012 08:56 AM, Jim Meyering wrote:
Would anyone object to making perl a build-time prerequisite? I.e., would this cause serious inconvenience?
Probably less inconvenience than a broken make -j ;)
If you're building on a system for which you do not run all of the perl-dependent tests, you can't be very serious about quality.
If `make check` needs it, then it's a requirement IMHO. Now I do really like the idea of minimizing dependencies, so for graceful degradation without perl, I suppose the best approach would be to skip the .pl tests and `echo "warning"; touch $manpage`. cheers, Pádraig.
