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 ? http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/~fsmp/SMP/akgraph-a/graph1.html "NT = Not Today" (Maggie Biggs) ``powered by FreeBSD SMP'' To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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