From owner-cvs-all Thu Sep 17 17:42:36 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from daemon@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA18130 for cvs-all-outgoing; Thu, 17 Sep 1998 17:42:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-cvs-all) Received: from austin.polstra.com (austin.polstra.com [206.213.73.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA17991 for ; Thu, 17 Sep 1998 17:41:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jdp@austin.polstra.com) Received: from austin.polstra.com (jdp@localhost) by austin.polstra.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA14180; Thu, 17 Sep 1998 17:41:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jdp) Message-Id: <199809180041.RAA14180@austin.polstra.com> To: mark@grondar.za Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/contrib/perl5/hints freebsd.sh In-Reply-To: <199809170603.IAA03554@gratis.grondar.za> References: <199809170555.PAA08032@cimlogic.com.au> <199809170603.IAA03554@gratis.grondar.za> Organization: Polstra & Co., Seattle, WA Cc: committers@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 17 Sep 1998 17:41:22 -0700 From: John Polstra Sender: owner-cvs-all@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In article <199809170603.IAA03554@gratis.grondar.za>, Mark Murray wrote: > This is where I start passing the hat around for a contract on the > Perl5 developers' heads. Grrr. > > They have built a twisty little maze of interdependant scripts that > is _nasty_ to unravel. These scripts are riddled with path searchers > and other crap that overrides the build environment. After this, perhaps you'll be in the right state of mind to really enjoy working on GNU binutils ... ;-) John -- John Polstra jdp@polstra.com John D. Polstra & Co., Inc. Seattle, Washington USA "Self-knowledge is always bad news." -- John Barth