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From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>
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Cc: Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
Subject: Re: gensetdefs using sh(1),sed(1),grep(1) and awk(1)
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* David O'Brien <obrien@FreeBSD.ORG> [001220 00:35] wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 20, 2000 at 01:29:07AM -0700, Warner Losh wrote:
> > I don't see what the big deal is in requiring perl is anyway.
> 
> Because the festing pile of sh*t doesn't build properly too often.
> How many reports have you seen of people who have a lot of trouble with
> perl when upgrading?  We should make it so one can turn Perl off in the
> world build, and still be able to build a kernel.
> 
> Once running on a new kernel and new mostly-complete userland, they can
> re-try bulding the world with perl.

This is a bogus argument, people may have problems _compiling_ perl,
but I've never heard of anyone having problems with the installed
perl.

> > What makes it different than awk or sh or sed?
> 
> They always build.

And perl 'always' works.

What's your point?

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