Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2001 21:16:07 +1000 (EST) From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: <current@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: perl5 build is poo Message-ID: <20010827210127.D37912-100000@besplex.bde.org> In-Reply-To: <20010823154405.A17733@dragon.nuxi.com>
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On Thu, 23 Aug 2001, David O'Brien wrote: > On a -current Alpha box I cannot: > > cd /usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/perl > make cleandir && make cleandir > make obj > make depend > ... > ===> perl > Extracting config.h (with variable substitutions) > Extracting cflags (with variable substitutions) > Extracting writemain (with variable substitutions) > Extracting myconfig (with variable substitutions) > miniperl:No such file or directory > *** Error code 1 > > Why isn't miniperl in /usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/perl/Makefile ? It's because people didn't want to face the cross-compilation issues. I don't know of any reason why miniperl can't be built as a build-tool, but haven't tested this. I work around this bug by building miniperl manually and copying it to /usr/bin Bruce To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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