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Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2002 20:59:31 -0500
From: Sergey Babkin <babkin@bellatlantic.net>
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Cc: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>,
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Subject: Re: AWK/perl hacker needed to assist the Sparc64 port
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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.

Hm, that's a bit surprizing. How about getting perl4 bootstrapped
first ? It should be way easier than perl5.

-SB

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