Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1998 17:21:01 +0100 From: Eivind Eklund <eivind@yes.no> To: Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za> Cc: Satoshi Asami <asami@FreeBSD.ORG>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: perl5 is needed to build kernel, why the a make.conf option NOPERL5 ? Message-ID: <19981116172101.37257@follo.net> In-Reply-To: <199811161151.NAA00668@greenpeace.grondar.za>; from Mark Murray on Mon, Nov 16, 1998 at 01:51:12PM %2B0200 References: <199811160606.IAA04093@greenpeace.grondar.za> <199811160618.WAA00540@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu> <19981116083046.A4393@klemm.gtn.com> <199811161151.NAA00668@greenpeace.grondar.za>
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On Mon, Nov 16, 1998 at 01:51:12PM +0200, Mark Murray wrote: > Andreas Klemm wrote: > > 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. > > The second one can stay, but I cannot think of a use for the first; > you make world; you have no perl; you need to build a kernel - oops! I think the first one also is nice to have. Some of us want to update perl and the rest of the system independently of each other (e.g, due to local hacks to the perl code, for people doing development of Perl itself). Eivind. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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