On Sun Jun 22 03:39:37 2008, bernhard wrote:
> 
> So 'has_gnu_m4' is not essential to the implementation of 'Parrot m4'. 
> In r28633 I removed the use of 'has_gnu_m4' and the config step 
> auto::m4.pm can now be removed.
> 

Done.  Patch applied in r28656

> But the real scope of ticket RT#43857 is something different. Language 
> implementations may need config probes that
> are only relevant for that particular language. Therefore there should 
> be some kind of infrastructure set up,
> so that those probes can be placed within the language dir. Taking 
> 'Plumhead' as an example,
> I would have liked to set up probes checking for 'phc', 'antlr' and 
> 'xsltproc'. I didn't do so because I didn't want to clutter the Parrot 
> config.
> 

So the ticket remains open.

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