Re: no on-line html manual?

[Alexandre Duret-Lutz]

>>> "Paul" == Paul Eggert <address@hidden> writes:

 Paul> Alexandre Duret-Lutz <address@hidden> writes:
 >> Perl is mandatory!

 Paul> Hmm, how mandatory, exactly?  

Mandatorily mandatory.   configure will rightfully abort otherwise.

 Paul> The web page already says this:

 Paul> Some optional utilities that come with Autoconf use Perl.  However, none
 Paul> of those are required in order to use the main Autoconf program.  If perl
 Paul> is not present, the affected Autoconf utilities will not be installed.

 Paul> Is this no longer accurate?

It's blatantly wrong: all Autoconf tools require Perl.


* Major changes in Autoconf 2.53

  Released 2002-03-08 by Akim Demaille.

** Requirements

  Perl 5.005_03 or later is required: autom4te is written in Perl and is
  needed by autoconf.  autoheader, autoreconf, ifnames, and autoscan are
  rewritten in Perl.

-- 
Alexandre Duret-Lutz