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4399	Add support for cross-compilation with PERL path different between --build and --host	slyfox	andrew_b	"NixOS (and some other cross-OS cases, or using localy-built perl) have different paths to build-time perl (--build) and run-time perl (--host). Build system does not distinguish between those. As a result build fails as (if we use '''./configure PERL=${runtime}/perl'''):


    install: cannot stat './mc.hlp.es': No such file or directory

The proposed change adds '''PERL_FOR_BUILD''' variable (similar to '''autoconf''''s '''CC_FOR_BUILD''' and friends) to fix the build for such special cases."	defect	closed	major	4.8.29	mc-core	master	fixed					merged	committed-master