From owner-freebsd-current Fri Nov 27 13:40:07 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA26836 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Fri, 27 Nov 1998 13:40:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from wall.polstra.com (rtrwan160.accessone.com [206.213.115.74]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA26831 for ; Fri, 27 Nov 1998 13:40:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jdp@polstra.com) Received: from vashon.polstra.com (vashon.polstra.com [206.213.73.13]) by wall.polstra.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id NAA16454; Fri, 27 Nov 1998 13:39:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jdp@polstra.com) From: John Polstra Received: (from jdp@localhost) by vashon.polstra.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) id NAA07693; Fri, 27 Nov 1998 13:39:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jdp@polstra.com) Date: Fri, 27 Nov 1998 13:39:38 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <199811272139.NAA07693@vashon.polstra.com> To: kkennawa@physics.adelaide.edu.au Subject: Re: Updated gperf? Newsgroups: polstra.freebsd.current In-Reply-To: Organization: Polstra & Co., Seattle, WA Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In article , Kris Kennaway wrote: > I've been playing around with the egcs snapshots, and newer ones rely on a > modified version of gperf 2.7 (gperf 2.1 is the version currently in 3.0). > Can someone who actually understands what gperf does: > > 1) pronounce whether 2.7 is suitable for inclusion in the base tree (i.e. > backwards-compatible for our needs, or whatever), and I don't know. I'd suggest trying a make world with the new gperf in the tree, and seeing what happens. > 2) take a look at > ftp://egcs.cygnus.com/pub/egcs/infrastructure/gperf-2.7-19981006.pat > and see whether this is a worthwhile patch to include? The patch appears to be incomplete, since it doesn't change any of the documentation files. That makes it kind of hard to guess what the patch does. It apparently adds a new command line option. But what does the new option do? It scratches somebody's secret itch, apparently. ;-) If the new gperf passes the make world test, and if you can find out what the patch does and update the man page and texinfo file appropriately, then I don't have a problem with its being brought into the source tree. John -- John Polstra jdp@polstra.com John D. Polstra & Co., Inc. Seattle, Washington USA "Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public." -- H. L. Mencken To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message