Re: [PATCH] build: do not require help2man at build-from-tarball time

[Pádraig Brady]

On 10/24/2012 08:56 AM, Jim Meyering wrote:
> Would anyone object to making perl a build-time prerequisite?
> I.e., would this cause serious inconvenience?

Probably less inconvenience than a broken make -j ;)

> If you're building on a system for which you do not run all of
> the perl-dependent tests, you can't be very serious about quality.

If `make check` needs it, then it's a requirement IMHO.

Now I do really like the idea of minimizing dependencies,
so for graceful degradation without perl, I suppose
the best approach would be to skip the .pl tests and
`echo "warning"; touch $manpage`.

cheers,
Pádraig.