Is fixpaths the only perl dependency?

[Mo DeJong]

Hello. 

I just tried to download and build the 2.3.0.p1
(portable) release with Cygwin on an NT box.
It fails to build because of the use of a perl
script. Cygwin does not have Perl installed
by default and to be honest it seems like
a bit of a stretch to require perl to be
able to build shh, that just makes it harder
to build.

I poked around and it seems like these files
depend on perl:

contrib/make-shh-known-hosts.pl
fixpaths
fixprogs

I took a quick peek at the fixpaths script
and it does not look too complex, seems
like something an AWK script would be
able to handle. The fixprogs looks
more complex, it is used during the
build process or just for testing
ala "make check" ?

I am willing to hack up an awk script
to take the place of fixpaths if it
will be accepted into the next release.

I have checked out the CVS version of
the code but I don't see the scripts
in there, is there some other CVS
module where these scripts live?

thanks
Mo DeJong
Red Hat Inc