From owner-freebsd-current Thu Dec 17 08:33:38 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA16396 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Thu, 17 Dec 1998 08:33:38 -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 IAA16386 for ; Thu, 17 Dec 1998 08:33:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mark@grondar.za) Received: from greenpeace.grondar.za (IDENT:uDxachBFYLMBdHssLktlyuxYpgshEGtw@greenpeace.grondar.za [196.7.18.132]) by gratis.grondar.za (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id SAA07757; Thu, 17 Dec 1998 18:33:22 +0200 (SAST) (envelope-from mark@grondar.za) Received: from grondar.za (IDENT:4RnoEX+kQko78Ow6poenKyoYDBsJqGyp@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by greenpeace.grondar.za (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id SAA75584; Thu, 17 Dec 1998 18:33:20 +0200 (SAST) (envelope-from mark@grondar.za) Message-Id: <199812171633.SAA75584@greenpeace.grondar.za> To: Kris Kennaway cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Rebuilding perl after cvsup In-Reply-To: Your message of " Fri, 18 Dec 1998 00:21:50 +1030." References: Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1998 18:33:19 +0200 From: Mark Murray Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Kris Kennaway wrote: > This presumably isn't a problem for using make world, but it bites you every > time if you're rebuilding using 'make all' (which is much quicker, and usually > works just fine). This is not the supported way to do things, I know, but is > this problem easy to fix? No; it is _horrendously_ difficult. :-) For any number of simple cases, it is simple, but for the general 2.2.x/3.0.y and aout/elf combinations, the problems are _nasty_. > Remaking perl also seems to spend a lot of time rebuilding manpages and so > forth which haven't changed..I guess this is a side-effect of the generally > ugly build process for PERL which I've heard rumours about :-) Amen, brother! 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