Date: Wed, 19 Jun 1996 15:39:42 -0400 From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@lcs.mit.edu> To: Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: tcl -- what's going on here. Message-ID: <9606191939.AA19979@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> In-Reply-To: <199606191837.UAA00804@grumble.grondar.za> References: <199606191837.UAA00804@grumble.grondar.za>
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<<On Wed, 19 Jun 1996 20:37:54 +0200, Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za> said:
> I say, why not _not_ bmake tcl, let it "all hang out" in its original
> format, except untarred and with patches applied, and let its own
> build do the work (modulo some makefile diffs (destdir etc)). diffs
> can easily be generated with 'cvs diff'. Further versions {c|sh}ould
> be imported on vendor branches.
My cynical version: because that would only be about five inches from
actually converting it to Berkeley macros, and PHK wants to avoid the
necessity of doing this.
-GAWollman
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