From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Feb 13 16: 0: 5 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from swan.prod.itd.earthlink.net (swan.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.123]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D55BB37B425; Wed, 13 Feb 2002 15:59:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from pool0084.cvx21-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([209.179.192.84] helo=mindspring.com) by swan.prod.itd.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16b9JU-0005SQ-00; Wed, 13 Feb 2002 15:59:49 -0800 Message-ID: <3C6AFDE9.BAF93F3@mindspring.com> Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2002 15:59:37 -0800 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Sony} (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: obrien@freebsd.org Cc: babkin@freebsd.org, Alfred Perlstein , "M. Warner Losh" , hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: AWK/perl hacker needed to assist the Sparc64 port 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> <20020213080214.B5966@dragon.nuxi.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 David O'Brien wrote: > 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. Things don't have to be bmake'ed to compile. If there is a problem with the autoconf/automake (ok, ok, *when*, not *if*) then the patches should be sent back to the perl maintainers. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message