From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Feb 12 14:34:46 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from falcon.prod.itd.earthlink.net (falcon.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.74]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0AA6137B400; Tue, 12 Feb 2002 14:34:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from pool0027.cvx40-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([216.244.42.27] helo=mindspring.com) by falcon.prod.itd.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16alVX-00003H-00; Tue, 12 Feb 2002 14:34:40 -0800 Message-ID: <3C699807.7E9AF9B@mindspring.com> Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2002 14:32:39 -0800 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Sony} (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: obrien@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: Alfred Perlstein , "M. Warner Losh" , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: AWK/perl hacker needed to assist the Sparc64 port References: <20020212084918.A69309@dragon.nuxi.com> <20020212.104500.42462266.imp@village.org> <20020212103646.P63886@elvis.mu.org> <20020212.114355.20239712.imp@village.org> <20020212105352.Q63886@elvis.mu.org> <3C698404.59BA0875@mindspring.com> <20020212143048.C5014@dragon.nuxi.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG David O'Brien wrote: > On Tue, Feb 12, 2002 at 01:07:16PM -0800, Terry Lambert wrote: > > Alfred Perlstein wrote: > > > > : > : A shell hacker could really help out the FreeBSD/sparc64 > > > > : > : porting effort by updating vnode_if.pl rev 1.19 to have all > > > > : > : the functionality the perl version has today. > > > > vnode_if.pl is a perl script. > > > > I don't understand the request for a shell hacker in the first > > place. > > Because in order to use (ie, run it), one needs to have perl on the > machine. (1) We do not yet have Perl bootstrapped on the sparc64 platform. > (2) Perl is harder to bootstrap than sh, sed, or BWK awk. Or FreeBSD. 8-) 8-). -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message