From owner-freebsd-current Tue Dec 15 18:34:44 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA07883 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Tue, 15 Dec 1998 18:34:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from cimlogic.com.au (cimlog.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.51.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA07873 for ; Tue, 15 Dec 1998 18:34:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jb@cimlogic.com.au) Received: (from jb@localhost) by cimlogic.com.au (8.9.1/8.9.1) id NAA13577; Wed, 16 Dec 1998 13:47:14 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from jb) From: John Birrell Message-Id: <199812160247.NAA13577@cimlogic.com.au> Subject: Re: FreeBSD Buildworld fails In-Reply-To: <199812160223.SAA01119@dingo.cdrom.com> from Mike Smith at "Dec 15, 98 06:23:33 pm" To: mike@smith.net.au (Mike Smith) Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1998 13:47:13 +1100 (EST) Cc: forrie@forrie.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL40 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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