From owner-freebsd-bugs Sat Nov 15 07:46:11 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id HAA14099 for bugs-outgoing; Sat, 15 Nov 1997 07:46:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-bugs) Received: from conductor.synapse.net (conductor.synapse.net [199.84.54.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id HAA14093 for ; Sat, 15 Nov 1997 07:46:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from evanc@synapse.net) Received: (qmail 25978 invoked from network); 15 Nov 1997 15:46:05 -0000 Received: from cello.synapse.net (199.84.54.81) by conductor.synapse.net with SMTP; 15 Nov 1997 15:46:05 -0000 Date: Sat, 15 Nov 1997 10:46:04 -0500 (EST) From: Evan Champion Reply-To: Evan Champion To: ac199@hwcn.org cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-bugs@hub.freebsd.org Subject: Re: bin/5050: upgrade perl In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sat, 15 Nov 1997, Tim Vanderhoek wrote: > No. This bugreport should include the proper bmake style > makefiles, and any other changes, removals, etc. that would be > necessary for perl5 before it goes into the main system. > > Same goes for the previous Tcl upgrade and bind upgrade requests > you sent. I just report the problem. Am I supposed to do everything? If I was interested in doing that I'd get CVS update access and do it myself. Merging tcl should just be a matter of merging the .c and .h files. I strongly suspect no or minimal makefile changes will be necessary. BIND may require a bit, but not much, and that bit should be localised to named as I can't see the resolver library structure changing much. perl5 is a different story. But BSDI obviously did a Berkeley makefile for it as they include perl5 with BSD/OS 3.x, so it can't be that hard. > Otherwise I think the pr's might as well be closed... At least > this one, since it is painfully obvious that we've got a rather > old system version of Perl (although it doesn't bother me > personally in the least :). perl 4.036 is absolutely useless, so IMHO either ditch it and save people download time or upgrade it. As it is very useful to have a built-in perl, I'd go with upgrade it. Evan