From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Aug 14 14:46:59 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA19164 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:46:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from bright.fx.genx.net (bright.fx.genx.net [206.64.4.154]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA19132 for ; Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:46:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bright@hotjobs.com) Received: from localhost (bright@localhost) by bright.fx.genx.net (8.9.1/8.8.8) with SMTP id RAA08962; Fri, 14 Aug 1998 17:46:52 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from bright@hotjobs.com) X-Authentication-Warning: bright.fx.genx.net: bright owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1998 17:46:52 -0500 (EST) From: Alfred Perlstein X-Sender: bright@bright.fx.genx.net To: Nick Johnson cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: perl 5 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG (some people's effort to get perl5 into 3.0) one thing i have no clue on how to find out is if FreeBSD can do secure setuid scripts. can it? -- Programmer @ HotJobs Inc. [- http://www.hotjobs.com/ -] |-- There are operating systems, and then there's BSD. \-- http://www.freebsd.org/ On Fri, 14 Aug 1998, Nick Johnson wrote: > It seems like bsd.man.mk shouldn't have to do anything with those > module::foo pages; I thought perldoc handled reading those. Maybe I'm > confusing things though. > > So /usr/src/contrib/perl needs to look essentially identical to what you > get when you untar a virgin perl tarball, and this makefile needs to > handle making whatever patches are necessary as it goes without changing > anything in /usr/src/contrib/perl, eh? > > Nick > > On Fri, 14 Aug 1998, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > > It needs to be berkeley make'd, which someone did partially but never > > finished (do a PR search for perl5) - they polluted the contrib > > portion by not running configure over it as a 2nd stage (you want the > > _pure_ sources going into /usr/src/contrib, not modified stuff) and > > they punted on installing all the module::foo man pages because > > bsd.man.mk has problems with ::'s. That needs to be fixed too, as > > part of bringing perl5 in by default. > > > > - Jordan > > > > > Al (brightmn) and I have been discussing perl5 being the default perl in a > > > future FreeBSD release; what could keep this from happening? The last > > > perl 5 build I did went flawlessly and passed all of the self tests. I've > > > also been looking into the standard distribution perl scripts (which, > > > whereis, adduser, etc) and it is taking very minimal effort to make them > > > run in perl 5 without errors or warnings in strict mode. > > > > > > What do you suggest? > > > > > > Nick > > > > > > -- > > > The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax. > > > -- Albert Einstein > > > My PGP public key: http://www.spatula.net/pubkey.txt > > > Nick Johnson, version 1.3 http://www.spatula.net/ > > > > > > > -- > "A woman's place is in the cellar." > My PGP public key: http://www.spatula.net/pubkey.txt > Nick Johnson, version 1.3 http://www.spatula.net/ > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message