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.
Well, I haven't built Perl for about 3 years so things may have changed but before that I had no problems with building Perl5 (and before that Perl4) from scratch. It only took a long time answering all the questions about the architecture and then everything just worked. Though the way Perl is imported into the FreeBSD tree is way more convoluted (and actually Perl from -current won't cross-build from 4.0). > Perl4 is no longer bmaked in our source tree. It can be pulled from an old cd or from O'Reilly or I can look in my archive. -SB To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
