From owner-freebsd-arch Wed Dec 20 12:34:58 2000 From owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 20 12:34:55 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from palrel1.hp.com (palrel1.hp.com [156.153.255.242]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 361B937B404 for ; Wed, 20 Dec 2000 12:34:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from adlmail.cup.hp.com (adlmail.cup.hp.com [15.0.100.30]) by palrel1.hp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9AFBD719; Wed, 20 Dec 2000 12:34:01 -0800 (PST) Received: from cup.hp.com (p1000180.nsr.hp.com [15.109.0.180]) by adlmail.cup.hp.com (8.9.3 (PHNE_18546)/8.9.3 SMKit7.02) with ESMTP id MAA02580; Wed, 20 Dec 2000 12:33:47 -0800 (PST) Sender: marcel@cup.hp.com Message-ID: <3A4117AB.F427A529@cup.hp.com> Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2000 12:33:47 -0800 From: Marcel Moolenaar Organization: Hewlett-Packard X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: Warner Losh Subject: Re: perl build References: <20001220002334.B41741@dragon.nuxi.com> <20001219233816.H19572@fw.wintelcom.net> <3A405A43.5C10697C@cup.hp.com> <20001219233816.H19572@fw.wintelcom.net> <200012200810.BAA07142@harmony.village.org> <20001220002334.B41741@dragon.nuxi.com> <200012200829.BAA07311@harmony.village.org> <20001220003532.D41741@dragon.nuxi.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG David O'Brien wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 20, 2000 at 01:29:07AM -0700, Warner Losh wrote: > > I don't see what the big deal is in requiring perl is anyway. > > Because the festing pile of sh*t doesn't build properly too often. > How many reports have you seen of people who have a lot of trouble with > perl when upgrading? We should make it so one can turn Perl off in the > world build, and still be able to build a kernel. > > Once running on a new kernel and new mostly-complete userland, they can > re-try bulding the world with perl. This is a cross-build issue that can be resolved and has been resolved. I'm not aware of any outstanding problems with perl. Let me know if there's a brokenness currently... -- Marcel Moolenaar mail: marcel@cup.hp.com / marcel@FreeBSD.org tel: (408) 447-4222 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message