Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2001 09:04:08 +0800 From: David Xu <bsddiy@21cn.com> To: Keith Stevenson <keith.stevenson@louisville.edu> Cc: Sean Chittenden <sean-freebsd-stable@chittenden.org>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re[2]: Perl 5.6 merged soon? Message-ID: <1331110877.20010316090408@21cn.com> In-Reply-To: <20010315161158.A7645@osaka.louisville.edu> References: <20010315080445.A57062@clyde.goodleaf.net> <20010315095551E.jkh@osd.bsdi.com> <20010315121201.E54243@rand.tgd.net> <20010315161158.A7645@osaka.louisville.edu>
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Hello Keith, Friday, March 16, 2001, 5:11:58 AM, you wrote: KS> Issue #1 (which is a show-stopper) KS> ---------------------------------- KS> The perl build process is almost 100% incompatible with FreeBSD's buildworld. KS> To even begin to consider upgrading FreeBSD's perl to v5.6, someone needs to KS> port the build to work with bmake and fit nicely within FreeBSD's buildworld. KS> This requires a fair level of understanding with both bmake and perl's build KS> process. KS> Several months ago, I spent almost 2 weeks trying to make this work. I KS> eventually threw my hands into the air and walked away. This is not a KS> trivial exercise. KS> Once someone has demonstrated how to build perl5.6 in the context of the world, KS> I'm sure that things will proceed much more quickly. KS> Regards, KS> --Keith Stevenson-- if perl needn't in base system, we needn't hack perl and bmake, and can put perl in ports, it seems ksh93 in base system is a solution, this makes base system smaller. could anyone consider it? does ksh93 have license problem for FreeBSD? -- Best regards, David Xu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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