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. -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com Phone: +44 20 8348 6160 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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