From owner-freebsd-current Wed Sep 2 22:38:49 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA18633 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Wed, 2 Sep 1998 22:38:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gratis.grondar.za (gratis.grondar.za [196.7.18.65]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA18616 for ; Wed, 2 Sep 1998 22:38:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mark@grondar.za) Received: from grondar.za (IDENT:/2xhg/kb61/rK76xTon/7eSdO+/SIGpB@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by gratis.grondar.za (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id HAA03983; Thu, 3 Sep 1998 07:37:13 +0200 (SAST) (envelope-from mark@grondar.za) Message-Id: <199809030537.HAA03983@gratis.grondar.za> To: John Birrell cc: jdp@polstra.com (John Polstra), current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: B CURRENT Build environment (Was: Re: Why no ldconfig for ELF?) Date: Thu, 03 Sep 1998 07:37:13 +0200 From: Mark Murray Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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