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Date:      Mon, 16 Nov 1998 08:30:46 +0100
From:      Andreas Klemm <andreas@klemm.gtn.com>
To:        Satoshi Asami <asami@FreeBSD.ORG>, mark@grondar.za
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: perl5 is needed to build kernel, why the a make.conf option NOPERL5 ?
Message-ID:  <19981116083046.A4393@klemm.gtn.com>
In-Reply-To: <199811160618.WAA00540@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu>; from Satoshi Asami on Sun, Nov 15, 1998 at 10:18:44PM -0800
References:  <199811160606.IAA04093@greenpeace.grondar.za> <199811160618.WAA00540@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu>

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On Sun, Nov 15, 1998 at 10:18:44PM -0800, Satoshi Asami wrote:
>  * > So I set these options and removed perl5 completely from /usr/bin,
> 
> Don't do that. :)
> 
>  * > BTW, the perl5 port doesn't compile and install on a -current
>  * > system by default, because it's in the base system.
> 
> It shouldn't, and that's fine.

So, if perl5 from the base system is definitively needed,
then I'd vote to remove the misleading options from /etc/make.conf

	#NOPERL=	true
	#NOSUIDPERL=	true

and in the Makefiles where they would take effect.

Or what do you think ?

	Andreas ///

-- 
Andreas Klemm                                http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/~andreas
     What gives you 90% more speed, for example, in kernel compilation ?
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