bliako has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:
HTML::Tidy depends on a C library tidyp which is a fork, by the author, of libtidy. Compiling the source from the repository is not straight forward as a configure script is missing and additionally, the provided INSTALL instructions contain this warning:
If you do NOT have a ./configure program, then you are working from the source repository, not the tarball. Please get a release tarball from http://github.com/petdance/tidyp/downloads.
But the link is dead.
What worked for me (in Linux) was to bootstrap configure by using the autotools mantra:
libtoolize --ltdl --copy --force && aclocal && automake --add-missing --copy && autoconfThen also shush the beast with adding these missing files: touch AUTHORS NEWS
And finally ./configure && make all && make install will hopefully install this dependency.
Warning: serious cargo-culting above.
Note both packages mentioned above are read-only and I could not find a way to post this comment there where it belongs.
bw, bliako