On Thu, 20 May 2004, Mark Taylor wrote:
> > 1) The build fails during NDArray since it can't find /stardev/Perl/bin/perl
> > which is unsuprising to say the least, you need to substitute /usr/bin/perl
> > into the appropriate place in the packages build.xml file.
> >
> > I didn't commit this change back to the repository, but is there any
> > reason why the build.xml script needs to reference a non standard perl?
> > At the very least least any system with a Perl install will have a
> > symlink at /usr/bin/perl pointing to a perl binary.
>
> Crumbs, I had completely forgotten there was perl business in the
> ARRAY package. Since I went to considerable trouble to make sure
> that the only dependencies for a normal build in JNIAST and JNIHDS
> are java and ant, I ought to do it here as well. In the next day
> or two I will do something about this on the release branch at
> least, so it becomes a non-issue.
Done. There is now no build-time perl dependency in the ARRAY package.
As far as I know, the only remaining starjava perl dependency is if
you want to run the build-source target in JNIAST (not part of a
normal build).
Mark
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