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Date:      Thu, 05 Nov 1998 15:32:41 -0800
From:      Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
To:        Ollivier Robert <roberto@keltia.freenix.fr>
Cc:        "FreeBSD Current Users' list" <freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: make world breakage 
Message-ID:  <199811052332.PAA00800@dingo.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 05 Nov 1998 23:42:53 %2B0100." <19981105234253.A15131@keltia.freenix.fr> 

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> According to Mike Smith:
> > Funny; it works elsewhere.  You don't have perl in /usr/bin?
> 
> Isn't "make world" supposed to be kinda self-sufficient ? (all right, it is 
> within "/sys/boot"). I'll check tomorrow on the machine. Generally
> "/usr/bin/perl" is either the standard Perl5 or a link to my own 5.005_02
> like on my home machine :

It probably should be.  I've been seriously thinking about various 
options here; I don't think that the current approach (take group of 
files, feed through perl script to produce C file, compile C file, 
parse string in C file into runtime bytecode) is acceptably efficient.  
There are many alternatives and we need to look at more of them again.

-- 
\\  Sometimes you're ahead,       \\  Mike Smith
\\  sometimes you're behind.      \\  mike@smith.net.au
\\  The race is long, and in the  \\  msmith@freebsd.org
\\  end it's only with yourself.  \\  msmith@cdrom.com



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