recently, i try to compile a gnu wget from source code in cygwin environtment that pop-up error if perl is not found. otherwise, perl is installed both perl and perl5 on /bin/ but the wget is try search perl on /usr/bin. i think i have missed basic ./configure to setup path executable. so my question is basic.
what is it all about options on below:
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--bindir=DIR
--sbindir=DIR
--libexecdir=DIR
*
Thank you
These options specify directories where a software package being compiled is going to be installed. As far as I remember it doesn't deal with checks performed by configure. Make sure that perl is in $PATH. If nothing helps, try to locate the exact place in the configure script (usually it's robot-generated and not intended for human eyes, but afterall it's a shell script, and anybody can read it) and see what checks exactly are performed to locate perl.
Update: I have checked, the tests corresponding to perl look like this in configure.ac (which essentially is a "source code" for configure):
AC_PATH_PROGS(PERL, [perl5 perl], no)
AC_PATH_PROG(POD2MAN, pod2man, no)
This means that PERL with executable named perl5 or perl (somewhere in $PATH) is checked, and then POD2MAN with executable pod2man. Carefully check the configure output and config.log file and see what tests have failed.
Update2: The third argument of the AC_PATH_PROG and AC_PATH_PROGS is value-if-no-found. Also you may specify the fourth argument, $PATH for this particular check. Make sure that configure gets rebuilt after you changed configure.ac (usually it happens automatically, but may be performed by autoconf explicitly)