From owner-freebsd-arch Tue Dec 19 17:24:38 2000 From owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Dec 19 17:24:36 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from dt051n37.san.rr.com (dt051n37.san.rr.com [204.210.32.55]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F77B37B400 for ; Tue, 19 Dec 2000 17:24:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from slave (Studded@slave [10.0.0.1]) by dt051n37.san.rr.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA52349; Tue, 19 Dec 2000 17:20:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from DougB@gorean.org) Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2000 17:20:32 -0800 (PST) From: Doug Barton X-Sender: doug@dt051n37.san.rr.com To: Marcel Moolenaar Cc: arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: A perlified gensetdefs In-Reply-To: <3A3D6E2B.E6BFB5DC@cup.hp.com> 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 Sun, 17 Dec 2000, Marcel Moolenaar wrote: > Doug Barton wrote: > > > > > In order to reduce the number of ELF specific tools, I rewrote > > > gensetdefs(1) in perl > > > > Not to rain on your parade, but personally I'd rather see the amount of > > perl in the base reduced instead of increased. Is there a way to solve > > the cross-build problems without making this into a perl script? > > What cross-build problems are you refering to? Your stated purpose for making this a perl script was to "reduce the number of ELF specific tools," so I'm wondering why that's a priority, and if it could possibly be solved with a different method. Doug -- "The most difficult thing in the world is to know how to do a thing and to watch someone else do it wrong without comment." -- Theodore H. White Do YOU Yahoo!? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message