From owner-freebsd-current Thu Nov 5 15:33:58 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA19599 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Thu, 5 Nov 1998 15:33:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (dingo.cdrom.com [204.216.28.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA19594 for ; Thu, 5 Nov 1998 15:33:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA00800; Thu, 5 Nov 1998 15:32:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199811052332.PAA00800@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Ollivier Robert cc: "FreeBSD Current Users' list" Subject: Re: make world breakage In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 05 Nov 1998 23:42:53 +0100." <19981105234253.A15131@keltia.freenix.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 05 Nov 1998 15:32:41 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message