From owner-cvs-gnu Fri Feb 20 12:13:07 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from daemon@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA23021 for cvs-gnu-outgoing; Fri, 20 Feb 1998 12:13:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-cvs-gnu) Received: from cimlogic.com.au (cimlog.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.51.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA23006; Fri, 20 Feb 1998 12:12:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jb@cimlogic.com.au) Received: (from jb@localhost) by cimlogic.com.au (8.8.5/8.8.7) id HAA06690; Sat, 21 Feb 1998 07:12:34 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from jb) From: John Birrell Message-Id: <199802202012.HAA06690@cimlogic.com.au> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/gnu/usr.bin Makefile In-Reply-To: <23901.888004773@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at "Feb 20, 98 11:59:33 am" To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Date: Sat, 21 Feb 1998 07:12:34 +1100 (EST) Cc: jb@cimlogic.com.au, jkh@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-gnu@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL32 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-cvs-gnu@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > I considered that for a moment and then wondered why you'd want to > restrict PERL to the i386 arch. Even if the average ALPHA user hates > perl4, it's still not a convincing argument that it's architecture > dependent. ;) It's architecture dependent until it's ported to alpha. I've been using this as a "comment out" method so that I don't have to keep too many local mods to the source tree. I'm currently running at 150 which is too many. > Or is it? I have no idea how much we've mangled the copy we have in > the tree and while Larry's original dist is certainly > architecture-neutral, I wouldn't put it past someone to have removed > all the "extra" stuff at some point in the past. ;-) perl is not high on my list of things to port. I'm more interesting in finding out why vi barfs on ioctls. Gotta have my vi. 8-) Regards, -- John Birrell - jb@cimlogic.com.au; jb@netbsd.org; jb@freebsd.org CIMlogic Pty Ltd, GPO Box 117A, Melbourne Vic 3001, Australia +61 418 353 137