From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Feb 12 14:36: 8 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from caturix.genilog.net (mx1.mtl.distributel.net [66.38.181.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E035237B417 for ; Tue, 12 Feb 2002 14:36:00 -0800 (PST) Received: from colba.net (nat.MTL.distributel.NET [66.38.181.24]) by caturix.genilog.net (8.9.3/8.9.3/SuSE Linux 8.9.3-0.1) with ESMTP id RAA07124 for ; Tue, 12 Feb 2002 17:35:55 -0500 Message-ID: <3C6998CA.235C255B@colba.net> Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2002 17:35:54 -0500 From: Paul Khavkine X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Cc: 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 I had the same problem trying to setup a cross-compiler on NetBSD/sparc64 where perl wouldn't build oj it at all. 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. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message -- ************************************************* Paul Khavkine Network Administrator Distributel Communications 740 Notre Dame West, Suite 1135 Montreal, Quebec, Canada, H3C 3X6 1-514-877-0064 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message