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authorBen Gamari <ben@smart-cactus.org>2019-03-08 10:24:17 -0500
committerMarge Bot <ben+marge-bot@smart-cactus.org>2019-03-09 07:48:38 -0500
commitb760269c5914e128c07c66bacdbe86168003e82e (patch)
treea65998a8aa1710871b9a56ecaeb9bf30dc43617d /distrib
parent6b2f09916e0c8c5f37c9fbe08eb076476501c8d6 (diff)
downloadhaskell-b760269c5914e128c07c66bacdbe86168003e82e.tar.gz
Rip out perl dependency
The object splitter was the last major user of perl. There remain a few uses in nofib but we can just rely on the system's perl for this since it's not critical to the build.
Diffstat (limited to 'distrib')
-rw-r--r--distrib/configure.ac.in10
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/distrib/configure.ac.in b/distrib/configure.ac.in
index dd0eb2edae..f9f14d1f6b 100644
--- a/distrib/configure.ac.in
+++ b/distrib/configure.ac.in
@@ -51,16 +51,6 @@ Unregisterised="@Unregisterised@"
AC_SUBST(Unregisterised)
#
-dnl ** Check Perl installation **
-#
-AC_PATH_PROG(PerlCmd,perl)
-if test -z "$PerlCmd"; then
- echo "You must install perl before you can continue"
- echo "Perhaps it is already installed, but not in your PATH?"
- exit 1
-fi
-
-#
dnl ** figure out how to do a BSD-ish install **
#
AC_PROG_INSTALL