From owner-freebsd-current Wed Jun 28 1:11:45 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from server.baldwin.cx (server.geekhouse.net [64.81.6.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5050137B8AC; Wed, 28 Jun 2000 01:11:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from john@baldwin.cx) Received: from john.baldwin.cx (root@john.baldwin.cx [192.168.1.18]) by server.baldwin.cx (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id BAA99204; Wed, 28 Jun 2000 01:09:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from john@baldwin.cx) Received: (from john@localhost) by john.baldwin.cx (8.9.3/8.9.3) id CAA00980; Tue, 27 Jun 2000 02:41:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from john) Message-Id: <200006270941.CAA00980@john.baldwin.cx> X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20000626140615.H64105@dragon.nuxi.com> Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 02:41:25 -0700 (PDT) Organization: BSD, Inc. From: John Baldwin To: "David O'Brien" Subject: Re: Bootstrapping perl (Re: cvs commit: src/gnu/usr.bin/perl Mak Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG, Mark Murray Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 26-Jun-00 David O'Brien wrote: > On Mon, Jun 26, 2000 at 10:28:53PM +0200, Mark Murray wrote: >> > Since I'm now through it, I don't know the latest problem, but the >> > last thing I saw that the old lib got used with the new perl (or the >> > other way round) and that looks like it can be fixed with some path >> > adjustments. >> >> The problem here is that miniperl needs to be built early enough >> to be in the path perl "proper" is done. >> >> I thought build-tools was the answer; sadly that seems to be wrong. >> Now I'm looking at cross-tools (out of src/makefile.inc1). > > Adding something to bootstrap-tools implies that we can't use the > installed miniperl (backward compatibility problem) or the host doesn't > have miniperl. The bootstrap-tools built miniperl would then be used > throughout the build and install stages. I think that's what we have in this case. We need the newer version of miniperl to build perl, correct? -- John Baldwin -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.cslab.vt.edu/~jobaldwi/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message