Is fixpaths the only perl dependency?

[mouring at etoh.eviladmin.org]

The CVS tree you are poking around is the OpenBSD tree.  The
most recent copy can be picked up from the current nightly
snapshot at: http://www.mindrot.org/misc/openssh/

I don't believe that OpenSSH portable CVS tree is public at this point.

- Ben

On Fri, 1 Dec 2000, Mo DeJong wrote:

> 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
>