Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2002 23:52:52 +0100 From: "Rogier R. Mulhuijzen" <drwilco@drwilco.net> To: obrien@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: AWK/perl hacker needed to assist the Sparc64 port Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.20020212235216.01bc06a0@mail.drwilco.net> In-Reply-To: <20020212084918.A69309@dragon.nuxi.com>
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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.. =)
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