Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2001 16:11:58 -0500 From: Keith Stevenson <keith.stevenson@louisville.edu> To: Sean Chittenden <sean-freebsd-stable@chittenden.org> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Perl 5.6 merged soon? Message-ID: <20010315161158.A7645@osaka.louisville.edu> In-Reply-To: <20010315121201.E54243@rand.tgd.net>; from sean-freebsd-stable@chittenden.org on Thu, Mar 15, 2001 at 12:12:01PM -0800 References: <20010315080445.A57062@clyde.goodleaf.net> <20010315095551E.jkh@osd.bsdi.com> <20010315121201.E54243@rand.tgd.net>
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Issue #1 (which is a show-stopper) ---------------------------------- The perl build process is almost 100% incompatible with FreeBSD's buildworld. To even begin to consider upgrading FreeBSD's perl to v5.6, someone needs to port the build to work with bmake and fit nicely within FreeBSD's buildworld. This requires a fair level of understanding with both bmake and perl's build process. Several months ago, I spent almost 2 weeks trying to make this work. I eventually threw my hands into the air and walked away. This is not a trivial exercise. Once someone has demonstrated how to build perl5.6 in the context of the world, I'm sure that things will proceed much more quickly. Regards, --Keith Stevenson-- -- Keith Stevenson System Programmer - Data Center Services - University of Louisville keith.stevenson@louisville.edu GPG key fingerprint = 332D 97F0 6321 F00F 8EE7 2D44 00D8 F384 75BB 89AE On Thu, Mar 15, 2001 at 12:12:01PM -0800, Sean Chittenden wrote: > I realize 4.3 is going to go gold in a few weeks, but would it > be reasonable to assume 4.4? What are the list of outstanding issues > for perl 5.6? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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