[Aspell-user] error - do you need to have perl installed for install to work?

[Stowe Spivey]

Here's the sequence I use:

 

cd /usr/local/src
wget ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/aspell/aspell-0.50.5.tar.gz
tar xvfz aspell-0.50.5.tar.gz
cd aspell-0.50.5
./configure && make

 

After that last command, it goes through pages of stuff then displays:

 

... perl mk-dirs_h.pl /usr/local /usr/local/lib/aspell-0.60 /usr/local/lib/aspell-0.60  /usr/local/etc >  dirs.h
/bin/sh: perl: command not found
make[1]: *** [gen/dirs.h] Error 127
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/installed_apps/aspell-0.60.4'
make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1

 

I don't think perl isinstalled.  Do I need to install Perl then start over with the commands above?