From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Jan 3 23:38:38 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA08370 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Sun, 3 Jan 1999 23:38:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from korin.warman.org.pl (korin.nask.waw.pl [195.187.243.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA08347 for ; Sun, 3 Jan 1999 23:38:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from abial@nask.pl) Received: from localhost (abial@localhost) by korin.warman.org.pl (8.9.1/8.8.5) with SMTP id IAA05098; Mon, 4 Jan 1999 08:43:32 +0100 (CET) X-Authentication-Warning: korin.warman.org.pl: abial owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1999 08:43:32 +0100 (CET) From: Andrzej Bialecki X-Sender: abial@korin.warman.org.pl To: "Daniel C. Sobral" cc: Eivind Eklund , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FICL & Perl In-Reply-To: <36901450.B761AC7D@newsguy.com> 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 On Mon, 4 Jan 1999, Daniel C. Sobral wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 04, 1999 at 09:27:19AM +0900, Daniel C. Sobral wrote: > > > Is there any interest in getting rid of the perl script in the ficl > > > build? It is a very legible script indeed, but not being able to set > > > NOPERL is quite a nuisance for me. (As a bonus, my alternative > > > doesn't have a small bug in Mr. Sadler's script :). > > > > Depends on the size and clarity of the replacement. Be aware that we > > use perl5 in other parts of the build process, too - e.g, the device > > config generation in the kernel build. > > Well, it is about as readable as a state machine can be. I didn't Ok, after this introduction, it begins to look scary to me.. :-) _What_ it's actually like, a 1.5MB Forth program? ;-) Andrzej Bialecki -------------------- ++-------++ ------------------------------------- ||PicoBSD|| FreeBSD in your pocket? Go and see: Research & Academic |+-------+| "Small & Embedded FreeBSD" Network in Poland | |TT~~~| | http://www.freebsd.org/~picobsd/ -------------------- ~-+==---+-+ ------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message