Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1998 18:33:19 +0200 From: Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za> To: Kris Kennaway <kkennawa@physics.adelaide.edu.au> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Rebuilding perl after cvsup Message-ID: <199812171633.SAA75584@greenpeace.grondar.za> In-Reply-To: Your message of " Fri, 18 Dec 1998 00:21:50 %2B1030." <Pine.OSF.4.05.9812180017500.32749-100000@bragg> References: <Pine.OSF.4.05.9812180017500.32749-100000@bragg>
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Kris Kennaway wrote: > This presumably isn't a problem for using make world, but it bites you every > time if you're rebuilding using 'make all' (which is much quicker, and usually > works just fine). This is not the supported way to do things, I know, but is > this problem easy to fix? No; it is _horrendously_ difficult. :-) For any number of simple cases, it is simple, but for the general 2.2.x/3.0.y and aout/elf combinations, the problems are _nasty_. > Remaking perl also seems to spend a lot of time rebuilding manpages and so > forth which haven't changed..I guess this is a side-effect of the generally > ugly build process for PERL which I've heard rumours about :-) Amen, brother! M -- Mark Murray Join the anti-SPAM movement: http://www.cauce.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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