Re: Bootstrapping perl (Re: cvs commit: src/gnu/usr.bin/perl Mak

2000-06-29 Thread Matthew Jacob
On Wed, 28 Jun 2000, Mark Murray wrote: > > > Adding something to bootstrap-tools implies that we can't use the > > > installed miniperl (backward compatibility problem) or the host doesn't > > > have miniperl. The bootstrap-tools built miniperl would then be used > > > throughout the build and

Re: Bootstrapping perl (Re: cvs commit: src/gnu/usr.bin/perl Mak

2000-06-29 Thread Mark Murray
> > Adding something to bootstrap-tools implies that we can't use the > > installed miniperl (backward compatibility problem) or the host doesn't > > have miniperl. The bootstrap-tools built miniperl would then be used > > throughout the build and install stages. > > I think that's what we have

Re: Bootstrapping perl (Re: cvs commit: src/gnu/usr.bin/perl Mak

2000-06-29 Thread Mark Murray
> The choice to use crosstools is easier, since it by default installs the > tool into the "strict path", but Mark used build-tools and a path to > miniperl to do it instead, presumably since it is restricted to a very > minor bit of the tree. Also because miniperl and libperl want libm, and that

Re: Bootstrapping perl (Re: cvs commit: src/gnu/usr.bin/perl Mak

2000-06-28 Thread Neil Blakey-Milner
On Tue 2000-06-27 (02:41), John Baldwin wrote: > > On 26-Jun-00 David O'Brien wrote: > > On Mon, Jun 26, 2000 at 10:28:53PM +0200, Mark Murray wrote: > >> > Since I'm now through it, I don't know the latest problem, but the > >> > last thing I saw that the old lib got used with the new perl (or t

Re: Bootstrapping perl (Re: cvs commit: src/gnu/usr.bin/perl Mak

2000-06-28 Thread John Baldwin
On 26-Jun-00 David O'Brien wrote: > On Mon, Jun 26, 2000 at 10:28:53PM +0200, Mark Murray wrote: >> > Since I'm now through it, I don't know the latest problem, but the >> > last thing I saw that the old lib got used with the new perl (or the >> > other way round) and that looks like it can be fi