[Bro-Dev] [JIRA] (BIT-1440) Remove perl from list of Bro build dependencies

[Daniel Thayer (JIRA)]

    [ https://bro-tracker.atlassian.net/browse/BIT-1440?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=21413#comment-21413 ] 

Daniel Thayer commented on BIT-1440:
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Branch topic/dnthayer/ticket1440 in the bro git repo contains the necessary changes.


> Remove perl from list of Bro build dependencies
> -----------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: BIT-1440
>                 URL: https://bro-tracker.atlassian.net/browse/BIT-1440
>             Project: Bro Issue Tracker
>          Issue Type: Problem
>          Components: Bro
>            Reporter: Daniel Thayer
>             Fix For: 2.5
>
>
> Currently, perl is required to build Bro due to one small perl script.
> Since that script doesn't rely on any special features of perl, it can
> easily be rewritten to avoid the dependency on perl.  This is mostly
> relevant for FreeBSD, where perl is not installed by default.



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