Date: Sat, 15 Nov 1997 07:50:01 -0800 (PST) From: Evan Champion <evanc@synapse.net> To: freebsd-bugs Subject: Re: bin/5050: upgrade perl Message-ID: <199711151550.HAA14295@hub.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR bin/5050; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Evan Champion <evanc@synapse.net> To: ac199@hwcn.org Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-bugs@hub.freebsd.org Subject: Re: bin/5050: upgrade perl Date: Sat, 15 Nov 1997 10:46:04 -0500 (EST) On Sat, 15 Nov 1997, Tim Vanderhoek wrote: > No. This bugreport should include the proper bmake style > makefiles, and any other changes, removals, etc. that would be > necessary for perl5 before it goes into the main system. > > Same goes for the previous Tcl upgrade and bind upgrade requests > you sent. I just report the problem. Am I supposed to do everything? If I was interested in doing that I'd get CVS update access and do it myself. Merging tcl should just be a matter of merging the .c and .h files. I strongly suspect no or minimal makefile changes will be necessary. BIND may require a bit, but not much, and that bit should be localised to named as I can't see the resolver library structure changing much. perl5 is a different story. But BSDI obviously did a Berkeley makefile for it as they include perl5 with BSD/OS 3.x, so it can't be that hard. > Otherwise I think the pr's might as well be closed... At least > this one, since it is painfully obvious that we've got a rather > old system version of Perl (although it doesn't bother me > personally in the least :). perl 4.036 is absolutely useless, so IMHO either ditch it and save people download time or upgrade it. As it is very useful to have a built-in perl, I'd go with upgrade it. Evan
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