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

[lilypond.git] / configure.ac

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