On Fri, Feb 20, 2004 at 11:27:29AM +0100, Sascha Schumann wrote: > Please get your facts straight. > > > > httpd is still just as "buildable" on such platforms regardless of > > > gen-build.py: from the release tarballs. Building from a CVS checkout > > > cannot be done without extra tools, but that has always been true in > > > 2.0: you need libtool and autoconf (not to mention the CVS client). > > > Hell, autoconf itself has required Perl and GNU m4 for the last > > > three-odd years. > > autoconf does not use perl.
It has done since 2.50 AFAIK: from the README in 2.59: "" Producing configuration scripts using Autoconf requires GNU M4 and Perl. You must install GNU M4 (version 1.4 or later) and Perl (5.005_03 or later) before configuring Autoconf, so that Autoconf's configure script can find them. The configuration scripts produced by Autoconf are self-contained, so their users do not need to have Autoconf (or GNU M4, Perl etc.). "" joe
