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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

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