pixman and perl

[Ingmar Vanhassel]

Excerpts from Frédéric L. W. Meunier's message of Thu Oct 22 20:09:11 +0200 2009:
> On Thu, 22 Oct 2009, John Taylor wrote:
> 
> > Stephan Raue wrote:
> >> Hi John,
> >>
> >> i dont think pixman need perl. i can compile Xorg without perl.
> >
> > I have pixman-0.16.2. During the configure stage, it clearly says:
> >
> > configure: error: Perl is required to build pixman.
> >
> > I hope I'm wrong.
> 
> The perl references are in pixman/Makefile.am. Looking at 
> pixman-combine32.c, you should only need perl if compiling from 
> git.
> 
> When I run make using the 0.16.2 tarball, there is no sign of 
> perl in the build sequence.

Half correct.

./configure still checks for perl unconditionally, and aborts if it's
not found, see configure.ac:129.

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