Re: Make perl & examples optional

Akim Demaille <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.parsers.bison.bugs
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi Thomas,

> Le 12 sept. 2020 à 12:30, Akim Demaille <[email protected]> a écrit :
> 
> Hi Thomas,
> 
> You have not answered this question:
> 
>> Le 8 sept. 2020 à 07:46, Akim Demaille <[email protected]> a écrit :
>> 
>> So let's go back to the real question: Thomas, what makes you think
>> Perl is needed?  What problem were you addressing?
> 
> In spite of what Kaz seems to believe, Perl is not needed at all
> to build and check Bison.  Maybe in the past you, gemtoo maintainers,
> had to workaround some build problem that you understood as "Perl is
> required", but it was not meant to be.
> 
> So please, just remove that patch.  And if you encounter a build error,
> please report it *as a bug*.  Because, well, Perl is not expected to
> be needed.

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