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Date:      Wed, 20 Dec 2000 00:35:32 -0800
From:      "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.ORG>
To:        Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
Cc:        freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: gensetdefs using sh(1),sed(1),grep(1) and awk(1)
Message-ID:  <20001220003532.D41741@dragon.nuxi.com>
In-Reply-To: <200012200829.BAA07311@harmony.village.org>; from imp@village.org on Wed, Dec 20, 2000 at 01:29:07AM -0700
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On Wed, Dec 20, 2000 at 01:29:07AM -0700, Warner Losh wrote:
> I don't see what the big deal is in requiring perl is anyway.

Because the festing pile of sh*t doesn't build properly too often.
How many reports have you seen of people who have a lot of trouble with
perl when upgrading?  We should make it so one can turn Perl off in the
world build, and still be able to build a kernel.

Once running on a new kernel and new mostly-complete userland, they can
re-try bulding the world with perl.


> What makes it different than awk or sh or sed?

They always build.

-- 
-- David  (obrien@FreeBSD.org)
          GNU is Not Unix / Linux Is Not UniX


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