From owner-cvs-all Fri Dec 17 14:26:29 1999 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from overcee.netplex.com.au (overcee.netplex.com.au [202.12.86.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E1CC714A14; Fri, 17 Dec 1999 14:26:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from peter@netplex.com.au) Received: from netplex.com.au (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by overcee.netplex.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id C25231CD0; Sat, 18 Dec 1999 06:26:22 +0800 (WST) (envelope-from peter@netplex.com.au) X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: Julian Elischer Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/alpha/conf Makefile.alpha files.alpha src/sys/i386/conf Makefile.i386 In-Reply-To: Message from Julian Elischer of "Fri, 17 Dec 1999 14:18:58 PST." Date: Sat, 18 Dec 1999 06:26:22 +0800 From: Peter Wemm Message-Id: <19991217222622.C25231CD0@overcee.netplex.com.au> Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk Julian Elischer wrote: > why are we now using perl? seems like that is yet another > HUGE chunk of stuff that is not now optional. > > julian We've been using perl for quite some time in the kernel build. See src/sys/ kern/makedevops.pl. It's been in use since well before RELENG_3. It's nothing new. > On Fri, 17 Dec 1999, Peter Wemm wrote: > > Be more consistant in using perl vs. perl5. We were using perl5 in the > > kernel builds so as not to confuse with perl4 when bootstrapping from old > > systems. I don't know if this is still applicable but it shouldn't hurt > > to be consistant at least. > > > > Also copy vnode_if.sh to vnode_if.pl. Doing a 'sh vnode_if.sh' when it > > was a perl script was kinda silly. > > > > > > > > > Cheers, -Peter -- Peter Wemm - peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com; peter@netplex.com.au To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message