Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2000 01:29:07 -0700 From: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> To: freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: gensetdefs using sh(1),sed(1),grep(1) and awk(1) Message-ID: <200012200829.BAA07311@harmony.village.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 20 Dec 2000 00:23:34 PST." <20001220002334.B41741@dragon.nuxi.com> References: <20001220002334.B41741@dragon.nuxi.com> <20001219233816.H19572@fw.wintelcom.net> <3A405A43.5C10697C@cup.hp.com> <20001219233816.H19572@fw.wintelcom.net> <200012200810.BAA07142@harmony.village.org>
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In message <20001220002334.B41741@dragon.nuxi.com> "David O'Brien" writes: : On Wed, Dec 20, 2000 at 01:10:21AM -0700, Warner Losh wrote: : > Agreed. perl is required to build the kernel. : : A true mistake that needs to be undone. kobj will likely never be rewritten in sh. So until someone writes the .m -> .[ch] conversion program, we're stuck with perl. kobj isn't going away any time soon... I don't see what the big deal is in requiring perl is anyway. What makes it different than awk or sh or sed? Sure, it postdates them, but all these are in the base system. Why not use the best, fastest tool for the job? Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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