Hi,

--- On Sat, Jan 9, 2010 at 9:18 AM, Girish Venkatachalam
<[email protected]> wrote:
| I wonder how configure script can depend on perl.
\--

It doesn't depend on Perl. It is meant to be portable, and since bash
is available on most *nix systems it only requires bash.

On the other hand, if one decides to generate the configure script
from the configure.ac, Makefile.am sources, one will use aclocal,
automake, or autoreconf and these scripts are written in Perl.

  $ less /usr/bin/aclocal
  $ less /usr/bin/automake
  $ less /usr/bin/autoreconf

A very good tutorial on autotools by Alexandre Duret-Lutz:

  http://www.lrde.epita.fr/~adl/dl/autotools.pdf

SK

-- 
Shakthi Kannan
http://www.shakthimaan.com
_______________________________________________
ILUGC Mailing List:
http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc

Reply via email to