From: Dennis Stosberg <dennis@stosberg.net>
Date: Thu, 06 Jul 2006 15:34:45 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] configure: Add test for Perl
Message-ID: <20060706153445.G424b7ea1@leonov.stosberg.net>
In-Reply-To: <20060706172756.a42f1627.tihirvon@gmail.com>

Timo Hirvonen wrote:

>         if test -x "$1"
>         then
>                 echo "$1"
>                 return 0
>         fi

When run in the Git source directory, this will find the perl/
subdir.  If the user gives an absolute path to the perl binary,
there will be no auto-detection anyway, so I think we don't need it.

> It is not needed but might be useful if PERL is user configurable
> variable and can contain either full path or basename. For example this
> code
> 
>     test "$PROG" || PROG=prog
>     PROG=`path_find "$PROG"`
> 
> works with these cases
> 
>     $ PROG=/usr/bin/program ./configure
>     $ PROG=program-1.2 ./configure

I will add that.  For the compiler, the script already checks $CC.
I wonder whether

  --with-perl=...
  --with-python=... 

is more common (more similar to autoconf) than

  --perl=
  --python=

Regards,
Dennis