Date: Thu, 03 Sep 1998 07:37:13 +0200 From: Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za> To: John Birrell <jb@cimlogic.com.au> Cc: jdp@polstra.com (John Polstra), current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: B CURRENT Build environment (Was: Re: Why no ldconfig for ELF?) Message-ID: <199809030537.HAA03983@gratis.grondar.za>
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John Birrell wrote: > The bootstrap build of aout->aout or elf->elf uses MK_FLAGS to set > NOSHARED=1 for the initial build of something, installing that something > into WORLDTMP which is in the path. It cleans the directory and goes > back later without NOSHARED and builds the shared version for real, > running the static version in WORLDTMP as needed. > > My guess is that bootstrapping Perl5 is like I had to bootstrap Perl4 > on alpha where there was no perl installed at all. This involved adding > > _perl= gnu/usr.bin/perl/perl Won't work - The perl5 build is very different. > to build just perl in the lib-tools target of Makefile.inc1, but not the > other perl subdirectories (which are the ones that try to _run_ perl). I can run perl very early on (and I do, it its "miniperl" incarnation). I still need to be able to tell the "real" perl and its modules where the libraries are for a link - and that is the big sweat... 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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