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

[David B. <Dav...@mo...>]

According to Paul Kienzle <pki...@us...> (on 05/21/03):
> 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.

In this case a test for perl should be added to configure.base, with 
a configure error resulting in its absence.....

Cheers
David

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