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. -- Exherbo KDE, X.org maintainer _______________________________________________ xorg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg
