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Re: [patch] skip libm texi generation if perl is not installed

From: Martin Michlmayr <tbm at cyrius dot com>
To: Mike Frysinger <vapier at gentoo dot org>
Cc: libc-alpha at sources dot redhat dot com
Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2006 17:00:03 +0000
Subject: Re: [patch] skip libm texi generation if perl is not installed
References: <20060223005229.B9AB1180AB1@magilla.sf.frob.com> <200602222112.28242.vapier@gentoo.org>

* Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> [2006-02-22 21:12]:
> is the attached patch acceptable ?  this disables the install target if perl 
> is not available; same as if makeinfo is not available (libc.info cannot be 

I think that's pretty broken.  It shouldn't behave differently (in a
silent way) just because Perl is not installed.  I think what Roland
suggested was to add a proper option to ./configure (--disable-docs or
something like that).
-- 
Martin Michlmayr
http://www.cyrius.com/

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