Re: gperf: new prerequisite

[John Darrington]

On Tue, Apr 03, 2007 at 05:25:31PM -0700, Ben Pfaff wrote:
     John Darrington <address@hidden> writes:
     
     > On Tue, Apr 03, 2007 at 05:06:31PM -0700, Ben Pfaff wrote:
     >      +        * gperf 3.0.1 (or later).
     >      +
     >
     > This should go into README, not README.CVS, since it's required when
     > building from the tarball.
     
     Are you sure?  I'm pretty sure that, if so, that's a bug in
     iconv_open: Bruno Haible was just saying on bug-gnulib how those
     files *do* get distributed:

Well try it for yourself. If I mv /usr/bin/gperf /usr/bin/_gperf, then
I get:

$ make
make  all-recursive
make[1]: Entering directory `/Scratch/jmd/pspp-confidence-bug'
Making all in gl
make[2]: Entering directory `/Scratch/jmd/pspp-confidence-bug/gl'
gperf -m 10 ./iconv_open-aix.gperf > iconv_open-aix.h-t
/bin/sh: gperf: command not found
make[2]: *** [iconv_open-aix.h] Error 127
make[2]: Leaving directory `/Scratch/jmd/pspp-confidence-bug/gl'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/Scratch/jmd/pspp-confidence-bug'
make: *** [all] Error 2


I was surprised too.  Hence my comments on theebug-gnulib list.

J'



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