Timo Hirvonen wrote: > if test -x "$1" > then > echo "$1" > return 0 > fi When run in the Git source directory, this will find the perl/ subdir. If the user gives an absolute path to the perl binary, there will be no auto-detection anyway, so I think we don't need it. > It is not needed but might be useful if PERL is user configurable > variable and can contain either full path or basename. For example this > code > > test "$PROG" || PROG=prog > PROG=`path_find "$PROG"` > > works with these cases > > $ PROG=/usr/bin/program ./configure > $ PROG=program-1.2 ./configure I will add that. For the compiler, the script already checks $CC. I wonder whether --with-perl=... --with-python=... is more common (more similar to autoconf) than --perl= --python= Regards, Dennis - : send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html