On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 11:45:08AM +0200, Daniel Shahaf wrote: > Philip Martin wrote on Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 09:31:39 +0000: > > Stefan Sperling <s...@elego.de> writes: > > > > > On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 09:37:21PM +0100, Stefan Sperling wrote: > > >> I guess the python libraries really are more reliable in this case. > > > > > > Point being that we require python anyway to compile Subversion. > > > > Is that right? I thought it was possible to compile a tarball without > > using Python? If so it should be possible to build the Perl bindings on > > a platform that doesn't have Python. > > > > I had the same thought.
Yes please. That reasoning makes sense. I didn't think of the compile-from-tarball case. > > We can assume that anyone building the Perl bindings has Perl, so how > > about using a perl version of the Python command: > > > > READLINK_PL=$(PERL) -e 'use Cwd; print Cwd::realpath($ARGV[0])' > > Need to double the second $ sign. (or s/$ARGV[0]/shift/)
