Subject: Re: bug#29731: configure to distinguish makeinfo present-but-broken from missing-or-old

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2021 15:01:58 +0200

"Mutiny " <[email-masked]> writes:

> I did some deep testing and found out that following perl(sic) modules were
> missing:
> (excerpt from my setup perl modules script)
>
> cpan install Locale::Messages # emacs build
> cpan install Text::Unidecode # emacs build
> cpan install Unicode::EastAsianWidth # emacs build
>
> Thereafter ./configure and make&&make install working.

Does the Emacs build use Perl?  I looked through configure and Makefile
and didn't see any Perl mentions.

Anybody know?

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