From owner-freebsd-current Wed Sep 29 15:26: 5 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from rover.village.org (rover.village.org [204.144.255.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B34DF154F8; Wed, 29 Sep 1999 15:26:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (harmony.village.org [10.0.0.6]) by rover.village.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA37160; Wed, 29 Sep 1999 16:25:53 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (localhost.village.org [127.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.9.3/8.8.3) with ESMTP id QAA06568; Wed, 29 Sep 1999 16:25:51 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <199909292225.QAA06568@harmony.village.org> To: Joe Abley Subject: Re: FICL breakage... Cc: "Daniel C. Sobral" , Mark Murray , dcs@FreeBSD.ORG, current@FreeBSD.ORG, Mike Smith In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 30 Sep 1999 10:23:50 +1200." <19990930102350.A25061@patho.gen.nz> References: <19990930102350.A25061@patho.gen.nz> <37F20376.64A46CEA@newsguy.com> <199909291002.MAA52950@gratis.grondar.za> <19990929230549.F10020@patho.gen.nz> <37F20376.64A46CEA@newsguy.com> <199909292217.QAA06450@harmony.village.org> Date: Wed, 29 Sep 1999 16:25:51 -0600 From: Warner Losh Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <19990930102350.A25061@patho.gen.nz> Joe Abley writes: : > FWIW, one mus have perl installed to build a kernel. : : Is that desirable? Or do we need more awk? It simply is. It would be very hard, imho, to replace doug's perl scripts with awk ones. However, my knowledge of perl >> awk, so there maybe some awk tricks that would make it easier. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message