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Re: GCC depending on perl?
On Sep 27, 2001, Andrew Cagney <ac131313@cygnus.com> wrote:
> (I know about the pre-built manpages)
> A user of a distribution gets different behavour and different results
> depending on if and which perl they have installed.
No. If they get a release tarball, perl won't be used at all, because
the man-pages will have already been built, and their timestamps will
be correct. The problem is when you get a CVS tarball. You're
supposed to have a ``building environment'' for this to work, which
includes bison, autoconf, automake, perl and perhaps other tools I
forget now. These are not necessary for releases, though.
> A distribution's build behavour should be far more robust than that.
It is more robust than that. But that's the distribution, not the
random CVS snapshot.
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