On Tue, Nov 06, 2012 at 03:56:46PM +0000, Dominic Hargreaves wrote: > However I am a bit confused as to why gcc is being required, as I > don't believe any native code is being compiled. Does autotools just > assume that it will be needed at some point or is it left over from > long ago when there were SUID wrappers?
configure started needing gcc because of the tests for 'do you have this library installed' - I believe it was graphviz. It came in around 3.8.0. It's also helpful to catch this before you start trying to compile CPAN modules. -kevin
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