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

[Pavel Roskin]

> I think you missed my point: we need @PERL@ to be a path, at least on
> my system, running a script starting with
>
> #! perl -w
>
> fails.  But actually the fix is somewhat simple: use what I posted to
> compute the name of the $PERL to use, then use AC_PATH_PROG to resolve
> this name to a path.

Indeed I missed your point. This obviously has to do with the bug 68 in
GNATS. We don't have a way to convert perl or perl5 to the full filename
without resorting to another AC_PATH_PROG.

Too bad that Autoconf-2.50 will probably ship with bug 68. I'm very busy
these days :-(

Regards,
Pavel Roskin