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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: DEVEL-ANNOUNCE: kiss-0.1.1
From:       Stephan Kulow <coolo () kde ! org>
Date:       1999-01-24 10:15:32
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Yannai A. Gonczarowski wrote:
> 
> > What about using a simple configure?
> The problem is:
> Say you compile kdebase containing kiss for Solaris.
> The machine on which you compile it has perl in /usr/local/bin.
> The machine on which the user runs it has perl in /usr/bin, /opt/perl
> or some other...
> Since perl does not come with Solaris, it can be installed by the
> user in various places unknown to the packager, so it must be
> detected at run-time and not compile/configure-time.
> 
Well - no. The machine you compile for is always the machine you're
using. 

If not you're doing a package. And packages can rely on other packages,
in your case perl. And so they can take the path for sure. In this 
respect perl is nothing else than an external library. 

Greetings, Stephan

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