Comment 5 for bug 904647

as a compromise, it would help a lot if intltool.m4 stops checking for perl and the XML::Parser module.

that way one could at least provide a minimal intltool replacement that just returns the english strings.

basically you want to check if intltool is installed and working, right ?

whether it uses perl and XML::Parser behind the back are implementation details, someday someone might rewrite intltool in C or in python or whatever, but it will take years until the change in intltool.m4 propagates into release tarballs.

so imo it'd be much cleaner if the .m4 file just checks whether the intltool-tools are installed, and assume them to be working.