Re: svn commit: r1036534 - /subversion/trunk/Makefile.in

Philip Martin wrote on Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 09:31:39 +0000:
> Stefan Sperling <stsp_at_elego.de> writes:
>
> > On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 09:37:21PM +0100, Stefan Sperling wrote:
> >> I guess the python libraries really are more reliable in this case.
> >
> > Point being that we require python anyway to compile Subversion.
>
> Is that right? I thought it was possible to compile a tarball without
> using Python? If so it should be possible to build the Perl bindings on
> a platform that doesn't have Python.
>

I had the same thought.

> We can assume that anyone building the Perl bindings has Perl, so how
> about using a perl version of the Python command:
>
> READLINK_PL=$(PERL) -e 'use Cwd; print Cwd::realpath($ARGV[0])'

Need to double the second $ sign. (or s/$ARGV[0]/shift/)
Received on 2010-11-25 10:48:32 CET