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Date:      Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:17:27 +0000 (GMT)
From:      Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com>
To:        Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
Cc:        freebsd-arch@freebsd.org, arch@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: gensetdefs using sh(1),sed(1),grep(1) and awk(1) 
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0012211416450.278-100000@salmon.nlsystems.com>
In-Reply-To: <200012200829.BAA07311@harmony.village.org>

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On Wed, 20 Dec 2000, Warner Losh wrote:

> In message <20001220002334.B41741@dragon.nuxi.com> "David O'Brien" writes:
> : On Wed, Dec 20, 2000 at 01:10:21AM -0700, Warner Losh wrote:
> : > Agreed.  perl is required to build the kernel.
> : 
> : A true mistake that needs to be undone.
> 
> kobj will likely never be rewritten in sh.  So until someone writes
> the .m -> .[ch] conversion program, we're stuck with perl.  kobj isn't
> going away any time soon...

I may rewrite this tool in C at some point but I'm certainly not going
back to sh+awk.

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Doug Rabson				Mail:  dfr@nlsystems.com
					Phone: +44 20 8348 6160




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