From owner-freebsd-current Tue Dec 15 23:17:42 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA03849 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Tue, 15 Dec 1998 23:17:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from zippy.cdrom.com (zippy.cdrom.com [204.216.27.228]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA03843 for ; Tue, 15 Dec 1998 23:17:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jkh@zippy.cdrom.com) Received: from zippy.cdrom.com (jkh@localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by zippy.cdrom.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id XAA46043; Tue, 15 Dec 1998 23:17:02 -0800 (PST) To: Chuck Robey cc: Mike Smith , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, John Birrell , forrie@forrie.com Subject: Re: FreeBSD Buildworld fails In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 15 Dec 1998 22:19:07 EST." Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1998 23:17:01 -0800 Message-ID: <46039.913792621@zippy.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > OTOH, perl seems to have just one _really_ incompatible step, going from > the very old 4.036 to the more recent 5.* versions. I don't split the Unfortunately, as I'm now coming to understand, make that 2 highly incompatible steps. 4.036 to 5.004 and 5.004 to 5.005 (which we now use). Yes, that's correct, a bunch of stuff broke in the land of perl when 5.005 came out, some of which is currently causing a good deal of grief to folks like Intel. I've tried to talk them through the process of building a perl-less 3.0 which they can then add their own pre-5.005 version of perl to, but apparently this job is causing them more hassle than I expected it to. I guess our source building tools aren't for everyone. :( - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message