David O'Brien wrote: > 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.
Things don't have to be bmake'ed to compile. If there is a problem with the autoconf/automake (ok, ok, *when*, not *if*) then the patches should be sent back to the perl maintainers. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
