Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2002 08:02:14 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@freebsd.org> To: babkin@freebsd.org Cc: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>, Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org>, "M. Warner Losh" <imp@village.org>, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: AWK/perl hacker needed to assist the Sparc64 port Message-ID: <20020213080214.B5966@dragon.nuxi.com> In-Reply-To: <3C69C883.D30312EB@bellatlantic.net>; from babkin@bellatlantic.net on Tue, Feb 12, 2002 at 08:59:31PM -0500 References: <20020212084918.A69309@dragon.nuxi.com> <20020212.104500.42462266.imp@village.org> <20020212103646.P63886@elvis.mu.org> <20020212.114355.20239712.imp@village.org> <20020212105352.Q63886@elvis.mu.org> <3C698404.59BA0875@mindspring.com> <20020212143048.C5014@dragon.nuxi.com> <3C69C883.D30312EB@bellatlantic.net>
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On Tue, Feb 12, 2002 at 08:59:31PM -0500, Sergey Babkin wrote: > > Because in order to use (ie, run it), one needs to have perl on the > > machine. (1) We do not yet have Perl bootstrapped on the sparc64 platform. > > (2) Perl is harder to bootstrap than sh, sed, or BWK awk. > > Hm, that's a bit surprizing. How about getting perl4 bootstrapped > first ? It should be way easier than perl5. If you've looked at the perl build, I am not sure why that is surprising. Perl4 is no longer bmaked in our source tree. -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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