Re: AC_PROG_PERL (macro, docs, used in configure.in)

[Pavel Roskin]

On 24 Jan 2001, Akim Demaille wrote:

> Well, I give up, this patch was not ready to be included.  It is not
> using AC_PATH_PROG, and therefore we get:
>
> ~/src/ace % sed 1q autoscan                                       nostromo 
> 9:48
> #! perl -w
>
>
> I spent enough time on this.  If someone wants to fix it, here is the
> proto fixed proto patch, but I am not including it.

Akim,

thanks for making this patch. I think that it should be applied as is.
Reasons:

1) There are many things that Automake 1.4 doesn't understand in
Autoconf-2.50-style makefiles. Support for AC_PROG_PERL in Automake can be
and will be fixed.

2) Since Autoconf uses an old version of Automake with a new version of
Autoconf, it's Ok to have workarounds, such as AC_SUBST(M4) and
AC_SUBST(PERL). It's not the first workaround.

3) We should make sure that Automake with support for Autoconf-2.50 will
be released within weeks after Autoconf-2.50. Ideally, they should be
released together. Automake will be beta, but it shouldn't be very
important.

Regards,
Pavel Roskin