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. 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])' -- Philip
