From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Feb 12 14:42:55 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from artemis.drwilco.net (diana.drwilco.net [66.48.127.79]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 45D1A37B405; Tue, 12 Feb 2002 14:42:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from ceres.drwilco.net (docwilco.xs4all.nl [213.84.68.230]) by artemis.drwilco.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g1CMglZ63308 (using TLSv1/SSLv3 with cipher DES-CBC3-SHA (168 bits) verified NO); Tue, 12 Feb 2002 17:42:49 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from drwilco@drwilco.net) Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.0.20020212235216.01bc06a0@mail.drwilco.net> X-Sender: lists@mail.drwilco.net X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2002 23:52:52 +0100 To: obrien@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG From: "Rogier R. Mulhuijzen" Subject: Re: AWK/perl hacker needed to assist the Sparc64 port In-Reply-To: <20020212084918.A69309@dragon.nuxi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 08:49 12-2-2002 -0800, David O'Brien wrote: >In rev 1.20 of sys/kern/vnode_if.pl Eivind converted this from a >Bourne+AWK script into a Perl script. Well that just makes porting to >new architectures VERY difficult as the boot strapping of Perl 5 is quite >difficult. > >A shell hacker could really help out the FreeBSD/sparc64 porting effort >by updating vnode_if.pl rev 1.19 to have all the functionality the perl >version has today. I'll have a stab at it. No guarantees though.. =) Doc To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message