Perl is required?

[Joseph S. Myers]

On Wed, 19 Dec 2001, Stephen L Moshier wrote:

> Trying to build gcc on a sparc-solaris drew this failure.
> Is perl a requirement now?  How do we know what version of perl will work?

We check in configure.in for an installation of perl with a suitable 
version of Pod::Man.  Your problem seems to be that the pod2man in your 
path corresponds to a different version of perl from that in your path, 
and the perl installation found by your pod2man is broken.  Fix your 
installation so that pod2man in your path comes from the same (working) 
version of perl as perl in your path.

A secondary problem is that the manpage generation support in
java/Make-lang.in fails to allow for pod2man to fail, where as that in
Makefile.in prefixes all the command with - so that it doesn't cause the
build to fail if problems arise.  Submit a PR, assign it to "doko".

-- 
Joseph S. Myers
jsm28@cam.ac.uk