From owner-freebsd-current Wed Dec 16 07:49:59 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA00164 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Wed, 16 Dec 1998 07:49:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gratis.grondar.za (gratis.grondar.za [196.7.18.65]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA00136 for ; Wed, 16 Dec 1998 07:49:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mark@grondar.za) Received: from greenpeace.grondar.za (IDENT:oOcDkQTHfBM0rd8RQ9vVlczhaCdCP+aI@greenpeace.grondar.za [196.7.18.132]) by gratis.grondar.za (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id RAA05310; Wed, 16 Dec 1998 17:49:15 +0200 (SAST) (envelope-from mark@grondar.za) Received: from grondar.za (IDENT:OH+op32PHStdduzpnGZTm//iCG21bLip@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by greenpeace.grondar.za (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id RAA04913; Wed, 16 Dec 1998 17:49:13 +0200 (SAST) (envelope-from mark@grondar.za) Message-Id: <199812161549.RAA04913@greenpeace.grondar.za> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" cc: Chuck Robey , 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 23:17:01 PST." <46039.913792621@zippy.cdrom.com> References: <46039.913792621@zippy.cdrom.com> Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1998 17:49:13 +0200 From: Mark Murray Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "Jordan K. Hubbard" wrote: > 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. :( Can I help the Intel folks in any way? M -- Mark Murray Join the anti-SPAM movement: http://www.cauce.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message