From owner-freebsd-current Thu Dec 17 08:38:01 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA16866 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Thu, 17 Dec 1998 08:38:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from adelphi.physics.adelaide.edu.au (adelphi.physics.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.36.247]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA16830 for ; Thu, 17 Dec 1998 08:37:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kkennawa@physics.adelaide.edu.au) Received: from bragg (bragg [129.127.36.34]) by adelphi.physics.adelaide.edu.au (8.8.8/8.8.8/UofA-1.5) with SMTP id DAA01709; Fri, 18 Dec 1998 03:07:47 +1030 (CST) Received: from localhost by bragg; (5.65/1.1.8.2/05Aug95-0227PM) id AA02849; Fri, 18 Dec 1998 03:07:47 +1030 Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1998 03:07:47 +1030 (CST) From: Kris Kennaway X-Sender: kkennawa@bragg To: Mark Murray Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Rebuilding perl after cvsup In-Reply-To: <199812171633.SAA75584@greenpeace.grondar.za> Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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