From 49252ba6db660cc960f6646cc8fdda0f53ab98c3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Julien Rioux <julien.rioux@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 21 Sep 2013 12:47:52 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] 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.
---
 configure.ac | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 984ecbce1d..3922dd1527 100644
--- 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
-- 
2.39.2