On Fri, 23 Oct 2009, Justin P. Mattock wrote: > Alan Coopersmith wrote: >> John Taylor wrote: >> >>> Dan wrote: >>> >>>> Interesting. >>>> >>>> Personally, I don't like Python. That is to say, I've learned a bit of >>>> Python, and I don't like programming in it. But as Python is used by my >>>> distribution's package management system ( Gentoo ), I have Python >>>> installed on my system, and I've never really thought more about it. >>>> >>>> What did Perl do to you anyway? Just curious. >>>> >>> It may seem strange, but I don't like perl because of the way it must be >>> installed. As far as I remember, it has not a configure script and a >>> makefile. >>> >> >> Umm... I'm pretty sure Larry Wall invented configure scripts, originally >> for rn, then perl - and then the GNU project built autoconf to make >> creating them easier for the rest of us. Perhaps you're confusing perl >> with something else? >> >> > In any case I guess just hack pkgconfiig i.g. > /usr/lib*/pkgconfig/*.pc > ( to pass configure) > but then unfortunately depending how your > build is, you could run into issues later on down the line, > or maybe during the build i.g. -lpython etc.. > > try it out and see(personally seems more work > to do so, but then again seems interesting).
To bypass the perl detection without editing configure, it's just a matter of symlinking /usr/bin/perl to something else, or create a fake /usr/bin/perl, since configure just checks if 'perl' is present. Anyway, Perl is widely used by many things, like Autoconf and Automake. On the other hand, I rarely touch anything Python-based, and didn't have it installed for years until recently. I also had to install Ruby just to run an autogen.sh... _______________________________________________ xorg mailing list xorg@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg