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Date:      Sat, 21 Feb 1998 07:12:34 +1100 (EST)
From:      John Birrell <jb@cimlogic.com.au>
To:        jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard)
Cc:        jb@cimlogic.com.au, jkh@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-gnu@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/gnu/usr.bin Makefile
Message-ID:  <199802202012.HAA06690@cimlogic.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <23901.888004773@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at "Feb 20, 98 11:59:33 am"

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Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:
> I considered that for a moment and then wondered why you'd want to
> restrict PERL to the i386 arch.  Even if the average ALPHA user hates
> perl4, it's still not a convincing argument that it's architecture
> dependent. ;)

It's architecture dependent until it's ported to alpha. I've been using
this as a "comment out" method so that I don't have to keep too many
local mods to the source tree. I'm currently running at 150 which is
too many.

> Or is it?  I have no idea how much we've mangled the copy we have in
> the tree and while Larry's original dist is certainly
> architecture-neutral, I wouldn't put it past someone to have removed
> all the "extra" stuff at some point in the past. ;-)

perl is not high on my list of things to port. I'm more interesting
in finding out why vi barfs on ioctls. Gotta have my vi. 8-)

Regards,

-- 
John Birrell - jb@cimlogic.com.au; jb@netbsd.org; jb@freebsd.org
CIMlogic Pty Ltd, GPO Box 117A, Melbourne Vic 3001, Australia +61 418 353 137



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