Python parser for SN

[Thomas Heller]

>
>    Since I don't have automake on my development system (I use NT), i had
>    to write Makefile.in's and Makefile.am's by hand.
>
> Note that it's not necessary to run Automake and Autoconf on the system
> you're using.  If you move your tree to a Unix system with these tools
> installed, you can run it there. Autoconf and Automake work fine under
> Cygwin, by the way.
>
Autoconf requires perl. So I downloaded and installed ActiveState's
ActivePerl,
and tried to install automake-1.4.
But it refused to run.
Do I have to build perl from the source under cygwin?

Thomas