Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2000 13:39:38 -0800 From: Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@cup.hp.com> To: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> Cc: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src Makefile.inc1 Message-ID: <3A1EE01A.662D05@cup.hp.com> References: <200011241113.DAA70508@freefall.freebsd.org> <200011241927.OAA64192@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
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Garrett Wollman wrote: > > <<On Fri, 24 Nov 2000 03:13:16 -0800 (PST), Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@FreeBSD.org> said: > > > We use Perl's MakeMaker-generated makefiles to install Perl. Since we > > can't hack up MakeMaker's MM_Unix.pm to suit our build, we need chmod > > to be around until we use our own makefiles to install perl. > > Why can't we? I've been advocating doing precisely that for years. > (I know, all talk and not action.) I don't see anything fundamentally > wrong with fixing Perl's fundamentally broken build system. We can, but that would mean that we pull files from the vendor branch. This is not a crime, but shouldn't be done gratuitously. I don't particularly like having to copy chmod as well, but it's much easier to copy chmod than it is to fix Perl build brokeness, and it saves pulling files from the vendor branch. I think the bottomline is that nobody really cares too much about how Perl is building, as long as it doesn't break anything or as long as it isn't annoying anybody. Spending more time on Perl would be wasted... -- Marcel Moolenaar mail: marcel@cup.hp.com / marcel@FreeBSD.org tel: (408) 447-4222 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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