On Sat, 18 Feb 2006 abc wrote:
I wish you wouldn't require "perl" to compile
squid. Personally, I don't like perl, and I
don't have it on my machines, and I think
it would be best to allow people to compile
squid without it. I am sure it's doable.
Why not just use awk/sh or something?
patches eleminating the build dependency on perl is welcome.
we already use awk for other purposes (src/cf_gen_defines) so rewriting
the two build time perl scripts into awk would be the natural choice..
src/mk-globals.pl
src/mk-string-arrays.pl
but please keep in mind that awk is perhaps even less standard than perl,
with slightly different awk dialects on different OS:es.. (awk/nawk/gawk
and more)..
Regards
Henrik
