Build without perl using meson #1477
Description
How does one build git master without perl support?
Running meson setup Build -Dwith-perl=no and similar commans just outputs:
Program perl found: NO
meson.build:84:13: ERROR: Program 'perl' not found or not executable
The command $ meson configure | grep perl outputs:
Unable to evaluate subdir([]) in AstInterpreter --> Skipping
Unable to evaluate subdir([]) in AstInterpreter --> Skipping
Unable to evaluate subdir([]) in AstInterpreter --> Skipping
with-perl auto [auto, yes, no] ...
with-perl-lib ...
That looks like perl should be at "auto" setting, i.e. even the default build should cope with a missing perl.
Do the build scripts themselves depend on perl somehow?