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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 ?
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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.

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