Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1998 03:07:47 +1030 (CST) From: Kris Kennaway <kkennawa@physics.adelaide.edu.au> To: Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Rebuilding perl after cvsup Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.4.05.9812180306030.1698-100000@bragg> In-Reply-To: <199812171633.SAA75584@greenpeace.grondar.za>
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On Thu, 17 Dec 1998, Mark Murray wrote: > 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_. Ugh. Thankfully you don't need to rebuild PERL that often, unless something changes. I usually have NOPERL=true so it doesnt much matter. > > 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! :-) Kris To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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