Date: Sat, 21 Feb 1998 07:12:34 +1100 (EST) From: John Birrell <jb@cimlogic.com.au> To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Cc: jb@cimlogic.com.au, jkh@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-gnu@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/gnu/usr.bin Makefile Message-ID: <199802202012.HAA06690@cimlogic.com.au> In-Reply-To: <23901.888004773@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at "Feb 20, 98 11:59:33 am"
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Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > I considered that for a moment and then wondered why you'd want to > restrict PERL to the i386 arch. Even if the average ALPHA user hates > perl4, it's still not a convincing argument that it's architecture > dependent. ;) It's architecture dependent until it's ported to alpha. I've been using this as a "comment out" method so that I don't have to keep too many local mods to the source tree. I'm currently running at 150 which is too many. > Or is it? I have no idea how much we've mangled the copy we have in > the tree and while Larry's original dist is certainly > architecture-neutral, I wouldn't put it past someone to have removed > all the "extra" stuff at some point in the past. ;-) perl is not high on my list of things to port. I'm more interesting in finding out why vi barfs on ioctls. Gotta have my vi. 8-) Regards, -- John Birrell - jb@cimlogic.com.au; jb@netbsd.org; jb@freebsd.org CIMlogic Pty Ltd, GPO Box 117A, Melbourne Vic 3001, Australia +61 418 353 137 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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