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. > 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/)
