On Mon, 29 May 2000, Marc Lehmann <pcg@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sun, May 28, 2000 at 06:46:43PM -0400, Warren Hedley <w.hedley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Also, configure ignores the perl executable argument specified > > in the --enable-perl option (see configure line above, for example), > > The --enable-perl option specifies the perl prefix to install the > pelr modules, not the perl executable path. Specifying a file will be > disastrous. I think that the option should be named "--enable-perl-prefix" instead of the shorter "--enable-perl", in order to avoid confusion. This would be more consistent with the other options, and longer names are not a problem because they are not used very often anyway. The help string should then be changed to "--enable-perl-prefix=PFX". If someone wants an option to specify the path to the perl executable, then it should be "--with-perl=...". Maybe adding the "--with-perl" option would make people think twice before making incorrect assumptions? -Raphael
