Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1998 13:47:13 +1100 (EST) From: John Birrell <jb@cimlogic.com.au> To: mike@smith.net.au (Mike Smith) Cc: forrie@forrie.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD Buildworld fails Message-ID: <199812160247.NAA13577@cimlogic.com.au> In-Reply-To: <199812160223.SAA01119@dingo.cdrom.com> from Mike Smith at "Dec 15, 98 06:23:33 pm"
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Mike Smith wrote: > If we had Tcl in the base system, this would be trivial. I don't want > to use Perl at all - one is simply told that Perl is the be-all and > end-all of hackish scripting languages, but it truly appears to be too > fragile for that. It's not perl that is fragile so much as it's build process doesn't lend itself to our build/bootstrap procedure. We expect that our bootstrap procedure knows best. Perl knows that perl knows best. Sigh. > If anyone wants to take the offending script and rewrite it in a > fashion which is friendly to the build environment, please be my guest. > Perhaps the built versions of the help texts should be committed to the > repository? That's the easy way out of the problem if it doesn't cause "but why aren't my text files updated by buildworld" type questions. -- John Birrell - jb@cimlogic.com.au; jb@freebsd.org http://www.cimlogic.com.au/ CIMlogic Pty Ltd, GPO Box 117A, Melbourne Vic 3001, Australia +61 418 353 137 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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