rxvt-unicode-X: package updates to allow building with its embedded perl interpreter enabled

[Charles Wilson]

k.healy@student.ucc.ie wrote:
> To allow incremental search of the scrollback buffer with
> rxvt-unicode, I recently rebuilt the package with the
> --enable-perl option, to include the embedded perl
> interpreter required for this feature.
> 
> A few changes to the build script and Makefiles were
> necessary, because the perl-specific sections had not been
> tweaked to be compatible with the sandbox-type package build
> process used (.build/.inst/.sinst subdirs).

...

> To the rxvt-unicode-X package maintainer:
> I assume you made a conscious decision not to enable the
> embedded perl interpreter, due to concerns of impacted
> performance and/or added dependencies, but if I'm wrong,
> please feel free to incorporate these changes.

Thanks...

> In any case, it might be worthwhile incorporating all of the
> changes, bar the "--enable-perl" option to the configure
> script, so that the package will build cleanly if a user
> wants to rebuild with this option.

This is what I will do.  I really don't want to require perl at this 
time, but I'm willing to make it easy for users to compile the package 
themselves with perl support.

Thanks,
Chuck

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