On Tue, Feb 12, 2002 at 04:44:49PM -0800, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
IS IT IN THE LEAST BIT POSSIBLE TO STAY ON TOPIC ON FREEBSD LISTS
ANYMORE??? And we wonder why so many do not bother with them any more.
Please refrain from acting like a turd towards someone doing a bit
of advocacy as
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
David O'Brien [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In rev 1.20 of sys/kern/vnode_if.pl Eivind converted this from a
Bourne+AWK script into a Perl script.
I wonder, why?
Well that just makes porting to
new architectures VERY difficult as the boot strapping of Perl 5 is quite
difficult.
A
On Tue, Feb 12, 2002 at 08:49:18AM -0800, David O'Brien wrote:
In rev 1.20 of sys/kern/vnode_if.pl Eivind converted this from a
Bourne+AWK script into a Perl script. Well that just makes porting to
new architectures VERY difficult as the boot strapping of Perl 5 is quite
difficult.
A
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.
David O'Brien wrote:
On Tue, Feb 12, 2002 at 04:44:49PM -0800, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
IS IT IN THE LEAST BIT POSSIBLE TO STAY ON TOPIC ON FREEBSD LISTS
ANYMORE??? And we wonder why so many do not bother with them any more.
Please refrain from acting like a turd towards someone
In rev 1.20 of sys/kern/vnode_if.pl Eivind converted this from a
Bourne+AWK script into a Perl script. Well that just makes porting to
new architectures VERY difficult as the boot strapping of Perl 5 is quite
difficult.
A shell hacker could really help out the FreeBSD/sparc64 porting effort
by
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David O'Brien [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
: A shell hacker could really help out the FreeBSD/sparc64 porting effort
: by updating vnode_if.pl rev 1.19 to have all the functionality the perl
: version has today.
Would a 'C' hacker do :-)
Warner
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* M. Warner Losh [EMAIL PROTECTED] [020212 10:35] wrote:
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David O'Brien [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
: A shell hacker could really help out the FreeBSD/sparc64 porting effort
: by updating vnode_if.pl rev 1.19 to have all the functionality the perl
:
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Alfred Perlstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
: * M. Warner Losh [EMAIL PROTECTED] [020212 10:35] wrote:
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: David O'Brien [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
: : A shell hacker could really help out the FreeBSD/sparc64
* M. Warner Losh [EMAIL PROTECTED] [020212 10:46] wrote:
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On Tue, Feb 12, 2002 at 10:53:52AM -0800, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
Well, we could import ksh, which already does this :-)
Go for it.
Add YES vote from me!
-Brian
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Alfred Perlstein wrote:
* M. Warner Losh [EMAIL PROTECTED] [020212 10:46] wrote:
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On Tue, Feb 12, 2002 at 01:07:16PM -0800, Terry Lambert wrote:
Alfred Perlstein wrote:
: : A shell hacker could really help out the FreeBSD/sparc64
: : porting effort by updating vnode_if.pl rev 1.19 to have all
: : the functionality the perl version has today.
vnode_if.pl is a
David O'Brien wrote:
On Tue, Feb 12, 2002 at 01:07:16PM -0800, Terry Lambert wrote:
Alfred Perlstein wrote:
: : A shell hacker could really help out the FreeBSD/sparc64
: : porting effort by updating vnode_if.pl rev 1.19 to have all
: : the functionality the perl version has
I had the same problem trying to setup a cross-compiler on NetBSD/sparc64
where perl wouldn't build
oj it at all.
David O'Brien wrote:
On Tue, Feb 12, 2002 at 01:07:16PM -0800, Terry Lambert wrote:
Alfred Perlstein wrote:
: : A shell hacker could really help out the FreeBSD/sparc64
At 08:49 12-2-2002 -0800, David O'Brien wrote:
In rev 1.20 of sys/kern/vnode_if.pl Eivind converted this from a
Bourne+AWK script into a Perl script. Well that just makes porting to
new architectures VERY difficult as the boot strapping of Perl 5 is quite
difficult.
A shell hacker could really
David O'Brien says:
On Tue, Feb 12, 2002 at 01:07:16PM -0800, Terry Lambert wrote:
(2) Perl is harder to bootstrap than sh, sed, or BWK awk.
I've sent David something already.
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David O'Brien wrote:
IS IT IN THE LEAST BIT POSSIBLE TO STAY ON TOPIC ON FREEBSD LISTS
ANYMORE??? And we wonder why so many do not bother with them any more.
THIS THREAD IS NOT ABOUT REPLACING OUR /bin/sh. IT IS ABOUT GETTING
SOMETHING WITH THE FUNCITONALITY OF vnode_if.pl THAT ONLY
* David O'Brien [EMAIL PROTECTED] [020212 14:33] wrote:
On Tue, Feb 12, 2002 at 05:23:31PM -0500, Adrian Filipi-Martin wrote:
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Alfred Perlstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
: * M. Warner Losh [EMAIL PROTECTED] [020212 10:35] wrote:
Well, we
David O'Brien wrote:
On Tue, Feb 12, 2002 at 01:07:16PM -0800, Terry Lambert wrote:
Alfred Perlstein wrote:
: : A shell hacker could really help out the FreeBSD/sparc64
: : porting effort by updating vnode_if.pl rev 1.19 to have all
: : the functionality the perl version has
Adrian Filipi-Martin wrote:
On Tue, 12 Feb 2002, M. Warner Losh wrote:
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Alfred Perlstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
: * M. Warner Losh [EMAIL PROTECTED] [020212 10:35] wrote:
Well, we could import ksh, which already does this :-)
Warner
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