On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 9:51 PM, Eric Blake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > According to Tom Browder on 10/26/2008 5:38 PM: >> Any chance of getting (autoconf < configure.ac > configure) to be able >> to use a Perl script if a macro finds suitable evidence of a modern >> Perl capability? > > Autoconf already uses perl to convert configure.ac into configure. I > think you are asking what it would take to rewrite configure to use perl > rather than sh. But what would it buy us? sh is more portable than perl
Eric, I saw the mod as working toward a capability to use another language during the user's configure step if it is found. I'm trying to fix a configure system to modify the Makefile somehow based on the existence of, in my case, Apache fop. I've been able to do that but not as cleanly as I would like. With the current capability I think my only solution is to include different Makefile fragments based on the configure test, but I haven't tried it yet. Regards, -Tom _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf
