Build: perl-less build isn't supported (issue 3578).

Although labelled as optional, perl is required to build the
.pfb font files, which are not included in the tarball. With
this commit, perl becomes a required dependency.

diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 984ecbce1d0f6389601d34913b5c02412a3002e3..3922dd15277d20452e952b6f4f8e75a74d223b57 100644 (file)
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -214,8 +214,8 @@ STEPMAKE_WINDOWS
 # guile executable for some scripts
 STEPMAKE_GUILE(OPTIONAL, 1.8.2, 1.9.0)
 
-# perl for help2man.
-STEPMAKE_PERL(OPTIONAL)
+# perl for help2man and for mf2pt1.pl
+STEPMAKE_PERL(REQUIRED)
 
 ## Optional tools for building documentation, website, extra fonts.
 if test "$DOCUMENTATION" = "yes"; then