Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2002 15:59:37 -0800 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: obrien@freebsd.org Cc: babkin@freebsd.org, Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org>, "M. Warner Losh" <imp@village.org>, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: AWK/perl hacker needed to assist the Sparc64 port Message-ID: <3C6AFDE9.BAF93F3@mindspring.com> References: <20020212084918.A69309@dragon.nuxi.com> <20020212.104500.42462266.imp@village.org> <20020212103646.P63886@elvis.mu.org> <20020212.114355.20239712.imp@village.org> <20020212105352.Q63886@elvis.mu.org> <3C698404.59BA0875@mindspring.com> <20020212143048.C5014@dragon.nuxi.com> <3C69C883.D30312EB@bellatlantic.net> <20020213080214.B5966@dragon.nuxi.com>
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David O'Brien wrote: > On Tue, Feb 12, 2002 at 08:59:31PM -0500, Sergey Babkin wrote: > > > Because in order to use (ie, run it), one needs to have perl on the > > > machine. (1) We do not yet have Perl bootstrapped on the sparc64 platform. > > > (2) Perl is harder to bootstrap than sh, sed, or BWK awk. > > > > Hm, that's a bit surprizing. How about getting perl4 bootstrapped > > first ? It should be way easier than perl5. > > If you've looked at the perl build, I am not sure why that is surprising. > Perl4 is no longer bmaked in our source tree. Things don't have to be bmake'ed to compile. If there is a problem with the autoconf/automake (ok, ok, *when*, not *if*) then the patches should be sent back to the perl maintainers. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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