From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Feb 13 8: 2:34 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (trang.nuxi.com [66.92.13.169]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 700F937B439; Wed, 13 Feb 2002 08:02:19 -0800 (PST) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.11.6/8.11.1) id g1DG2Ed06058; Wed, 13 Feb 2002 08:02:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2002 08:02:14 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" To: babkin@freebsd.org Cc: Terry Lambert , Alfred Perlstein , "M. Warner Losh" , hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: AWK/perl hacker needed to assist the Sparc64 port Message-ID: <20020213080214.B5966@dragon.nuxi.com> Reply-To: obrien@freebsd.org 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> <3C69C883.D30312EB@bellatlantic.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <3C69C883.D30312EB@bellatlantic.net>; from babkin@bellatlantic.net on Tue, Feb 12, 2002 at 08:59:31PM -0500 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 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 On Tue, Feb 12, 2002 at 08:59:31PM -0500, Sergey Babkin wrote: > > 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. If you've looked at the perl build, I am not sure why that is surprising. Perl4 is no longer bmaked in our source tree. -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message