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Date:      Sat, 18 Dec 1999 06:26:22 +0800
From:      Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au>
To:        Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com>
Cc:        cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/alpha/conf Makefile.alpha files.alpha src/sys/i386/conf Makefile.i386 
Message-ID:  <19991217222622.C25231CD0@overcee.netplex.com.au>
In-Reply-To: Message from Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com>  of "Fri, 17 Dec 1999 14:18:58 PST." <Pine.BSF.4.10.9912171417010.37239-100000@current1.whistle.com> 

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Julian Elischer wrote:
> why are we now using perl? seems like that is yet another
> HUGE chunk of stuff that is not now optional.
> 
> julian

We've been using perl for quite some time in the kernel build.  See src/sys/
kern/makedevops.pl.  It's been in use since well before RELENG_3.  It's
nothing new.

> On Fri, 17 Dec 1999, Peter Wemm wrote:
> >   Be more consistant in using perl vs. perl5.  We were using perl5 in the
> >   kernel builds so as not to confuse with perl4 when bootstrapping from old
> >   systems.  I don't know if this is still applicable but it shouldn't hurt
> >   to be consistant at least.
> >   
> >   Also copy vnode_if.sh to vnode_if.pl.  Doing a 'sh vnode_if.sh' when it
> >   was a perl script was kinda silly.
> >   
> > 
> > 
> 
> 
> 

Cheers,
-Peter
--
Peter Wemm - peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com; peter@netplex.com.au



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