Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1998 23:12:01 +1030 (CST) From: Kris Kennaway <kkennawa@physics.adelaide.edu.au> To: Richard Wackerbarth <rkw@nomad.dataplex.net> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: perl5 is needed to build kernel, why the a make.conf option NOPERL5 ? Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.4.05.9811182259080.1703-100000@mercury.physics.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9811180617470.14995-100000@nomad.dataplex.net>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On Wed, 18 Nov 1998, Richard Wackerbarth wrote: > > Eivind Eklund wrote: > > > I think the first one also is nice to have. Some of us want to update perl > > > and the rest of the system independently of each other (e.g, due to local > > > hacks to the perl code, for people doing development of Perl itself). > > > > OK - I'll buy that. I'd prefer it to be undocumented, so people won't find > > the switch, frob it, and get burnt. > > BUZZ ... WRONG ANSWER. > > Please document it properly so that people won't get burned. It's better > to tell someone why they shouldn't play with matches rather than just > hiding them on the top shelf. :-) Setting NOPERL=true is useful to me because it takes a fair mount of time to rebuild, even if the source hasn't changed. I recompile my world using 'make depend;make all', which while it's not the recommended or supported way to recompile things, does save lots of compilation time (I haven't needed to do a make world since E-day). Leaving PERL building turned on causes lots of 'null' recompilation of things which haven't changed (formatting manpages, etc)..so I only bother to recompile it when I see a commit message stating something important has been changed. As long as the effects of setting the flag are documented, I don't see a problem with keeping it visible to casual inspection (as opposed to burying it somewhere where it will never be noticed :-) Kris To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?Pine.OSF.4.05.9811182259080.1703-100000>