Date: Sun, 3 Feb 2008 03:30:02 GMT From: "Ben Kaduk" <minimarmot@gmail.com> To: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: docs/120152: dev-handbook/tools-intro.html claims perl in base system Message-ID: <200802030330.m133U2Lw061702@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR docs/120152; it has been noted by GNATS. From: "Ben Kaduk" <minimarmot@gmail.com> To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Subject: Re: docs/120152: dev-handbook/tools-intro.html claims perl in base system Date: Sat, 2 Feb 2008 21:57:51 -0500 On 1/30/08, Michael Voorhis <mvoorhis@cs.wpi.edu> wrote: > > >Number: 120152 > >Category: docs > >Synopsis: dev-handbook/tools-intro.html claims perl in base system > >Confidential: no > >Severity: non-critical > >Priority: low > >Responsible: freebsd-doc > >State: open > >Quarter: > >Keywords: > >Date-Required: > >Class: change-request > >Submitter-Id: current-users > >Arrival-Date: Wed Jan 30 14:50:00 UTC 2008 > >Closed-Date: > >Last-Modified: > >Originator: Michael Voorhis > >Release: FreeBSD 7.0-PRERELEASE i386 > >Organization: > WPI Computer Science Dept. > >Environment: > System: FreeBSD xxx.wpi.edu 7.0-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 7.0-PRERELEASE #0: Thu Jan 17 11:26:40 EST 2008 root@xxx.wpi.edu:/usr/obj/FreeBSD/src-releng_7/src/sys/xxx i386 > > >Description: > The file doc/en/books/developers-handbook/tools-intro.html claims: > > Compilers for C, C++, and Fortran and an assembler come with the > basic system, not to mention a Perl interpreter and classic UNIX > tools such as sed and awk. > > >How-To-Repeat: > > Read the relevant section (2.2 Introduction) of a recent developer's > handbook, first sentence. My handbook was cvsup'd from the docs > on the 29th January 2008, in the afternoon US/Eastern time. > > >Fix: > > I'd remove the reference to Perl in this sentence, rewriting: > > Compilers for C, C++, and Fortran and an assembler come with the > basic system, not to mention classic UNIX tools such as sed and > awk. > I thought that the Fortran compiler had been removed from the base system for 7.0 -- please correct me if I'm wrong. -Ben Kaduk
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