Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2001 13:36:44 -0800 From: Sean Chittenden <sean-freebsd-stable@chittenden.org> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Perl 5.6 merged soon? Message-ID: <20010315133644.A57487@rand.tgd.net> In-Reply-To: <20010315161158.A7645@osaka.louisville.edu>; from "keith.stevenson@louisville.edu" on Thu, Mar 15, 2001 at = 04:11:58PM References: <20010315080445.A57062@clyde.goodleaf.net> <20010315095551E.jkh@osd.bsdi.com> <20010315121201.E54243@rand.tgd.net> <20010315161158.A7645@osaka.louisville.edu>
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--liOOAslEiF7prFVr Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Mar 15, 2001 at 04:11:58PM -0500, Keith Stevenson wrote: > Issue #1 (which is a show-stopper) > ---------------------------------- > The perl build process is almost 100% incompatible with FreeBSD's buildwo= rld. > To even begin to consider upgrading FreeBSD's perl to v5.6, someone needs= to > port the build to work with bmake and fit nicely within FreeBSD's buildwo= rld. > This requires a fair level of understanding with both bmake and perl's bu= ild > process. I fully believe that this may be the case, but... [snip] > Once someone has demonstrated how to build perl5.6 in the context of the = world, > I'm sure that things will proceed much more quickly. I think that 5.6 is in the -current branch. Thoughts? If it really is that radically different, let me go and risk a few dozen flames and ask the guys on p5p how to reconcile the differences. -sc --=20 Sean Chittenden sean@chittenden.org --liOOAslEiF7prFVr Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iEYEARECAAYFAjqxNewACgkQn09c7x7d+q1CigCeMsurLygKb9r1+WkaiLZDLRLu hUMAnjGNPepANWSqNObgZ0YjMH3NbwUQ =84pd -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --liOOAslEiF7prFVr-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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