Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2002 16:58:46 -0500 From: Joe Abley <jabley@automagic.org> To: David O'Brien <obrien@freebsd.org> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: AWK/perl hacker needed to assist the Sparc64 port Message-ID: <20020213165845.G24173@buffoon.automagic.org> In-Reply-To: <20020212084918.A69309@dragon.nuxi.com> References: <20020212084918.A69309@dragon.nuxi.com>
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On Tue, Feb 12, 2002 at 08:49:18AM -0800, David O'Brien wrote: > In rev 1.20 of sys/kern/vnode_if.pl Eivind converted this from a > Bourne+AWK script into a Perl script. Well that just makes porting to > new architectures VERY difficult as the boot strapping of Perl 5 is quite > difficult. > > 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. I spend more time than is healthy hacking awk, most days. I am behind on my mail and haven't followed this thread through to its conclusion, but if an awk hacker is still required, I am here, able and willing :) Joe To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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