Re: [OctDev] re: new release : minor makefile problem

[Paul K. <pki...@us...>]

David Bateman wrote:

>At this point I haven't made a test to see whether perl is installed,
>but if it isn't you are bound to have other problems in the admin
>directory... Is it worth disabling the build of comms.texi from 
>comms.txi if perl is not found? If so shoudl the test for perl be
>made in configure.base or in main/comm/configure.add?
>
I'm inclined to assume perl for now, but minimize its use.
The only systems that won't have perl readily available
are probably windows systems, and most of those folks
will be using prebuilt octave/octave-forge.

- Paul

BTW, thanks for the makefile updates.