From owner-cvs-all Fri Sep 18 01:48:32 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from daemon@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id BAA01013 for cvs-all-outgoing; Fri, 18 Sep 1998 01:48:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-cvs-all) Received: from nlsystems.com (nlsys.demon.co.uk [158.152.125.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA00999 for ; Fri, 18 Sep 1998 01:48:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Received: from herring.nlsystems.com (herring.nlsystems.com [10.0.0.2]) by nlsystems.com (8.9.1/8.8.5) with SMTP id JAA18640; Fri, 18 Sep 1998 09:47:48 +0100 (BST) Date: Fri, 18 Sep 1998 09:47:48 +0100 (BST) From: Doug Rabson To: John Polstra cc: mark@grondar.za, committers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/contrib/perl5/hints freebsd.sh In-Reply-To: <199809180041.RAA14180@austin.polstra.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-cvs-all@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 17 Sep 1998, John Polstra wrote: > 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 ... ;-) I didn't think it was possible to enjoy working on GNU binutils, even if you changed several laws of physics :-) -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 951 1891 Fax: +44 181 381 1039