On Fri, Oct 14, 2005 at 10:24:51AM +0200, Rickard Dahlstrand wrote: > Hi, > > I'm working on a installation where I can't install perl and I need to > be able to install packages using pkg_add, pkg_delete etc. > > There are two solutions to my problem: > 1. If anyone have a c-based pkg_add or pkg_delete that works, this would > be great. (It seems like this was done in c a while back)
And C was abandonned because the tools were buggy, hard to fix, and really hard to extend. The new tools do an incredible amount of work compared to the old ones. Rewriting the same thing in C is a *large* endeavor. What's going on is only very superficially similar... > 2. Try to compile the perl-source into a c-application using perlcc. The perlcc compiler is experimental at best, as your try shows. Good luck... You haven't actually justfied at any point why you can't install perl, from a technical point of view. Even if that's true, the new package tools support installing stuff in a chroot, specifically so that you can prepare an installation in a full OpenBSD setup that you're going to reuse on a limited setup later on...
