Re: popen2 example gives no output

[James R. Phillips]

--- "John W. Eaton"  wrote:

> [..] So it
> seems to me that it would be cleaner to use Perl to generate the list
> for Octave, when Octave is built.  That would introduce a build
> dependency on Perl.  Is that a problem?  Perhaps we could fall back on
> the list of names from POSIX if Perl is not available?  Otherwise, we
> would have to duplicate a lot of fairly tricky code, and that seems
> even less desirable to me.
> 

I don't see a problem for building in Cygwin.  For a mingw build, relying on
perl could be problematic.

jrp