From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Feb 12 14:31:31 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (trang.nuxi.com [66.92.13.169]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4961637B492 for ; Tue, 12 Feb 2002 14:31:16 -0800 (PST) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.11.6/8.11.1) id g1CMUqu07302; Tue, 12 Feb 2002 14:30:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2002 14:30:48 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" To: Terry Lambert Cc: Alfred Perlstein , "M. Warner Losh" , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: AWK/perl hacker needed to assist the Sparc64 port Message-ID: <20020212143048.C5014@dragon.nuxi.com> Reply-To: obrien@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20020212084918.A69309@dragon.nuxi.com> <20020212.104500.42462266.imp@village.org> <20020212103646.P63886@elvis.mu.org> <20020212.114355.20239712.imp@village.org> <20020212105352.Q63886@elvis.mu.org> <3C698404.59BA0875@mindspring.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <3C698404.59BA0875@mindspring.com>; from tlambert2@mindspring.com on Tue, Feb 12, 2002 at 01:07:16PM -0800 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 perl script. > > I don't understand the request for a shell hacker in the first > place. 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. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message