From owner-freebsd-arch Thu Dec 21 6:18:39 2000 From owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 21 06:18:33 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from anchor-post-33.mail.demon.net (anchor-post-33.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.91]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0B8FF37B400; Thu, 21 Dec 2000 06:18:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from nlsys.demon.co.uk ([158.152.125.33] helo=herring.nlsystems.com) by anchor-post-33.mail.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 2.12 #1) id 1496YB-000HsW-0X; Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:18:31 +0000 Received: from salmon.nlsystems.com (salmon.nlsystems.com [10.0.0.3]) by herring.nlsystems.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA03280; Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:17:29 GMT (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:17:27 +0000 (GMT) From: Doug Rabson To: Warner Losh Cc: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org, arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: gensetdefs using sh(1),sed(1),grep(1) and awk(1) In-Reply-To: <200012200829.BAA07311@harmony.village.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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