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Date:      Wed, 13 Feb 2002 08:02:14 -0800
From:      "David O'Brien" <obrien@freebsd.org>
To:        babkin@freebsd.org
Cc:        Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>, Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org>, "M. Warner Losh" <imp@village.org>, hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: AWK/perl hacker needed to assist the Sparc64 port
Message-ID:  <20020213080214.B5966@dragon.nuxi.com>
In-Reply-To: <3C69C883.D30312EB@bellatlantic.net>; from babkin@bellatlantic.net on Tue, Feb 12, 2002 at 08:59:31PM -0500
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> <20020212143048.C5014@dragon.nuxi.com> <3C69C883.D30312EB@bellatlantic.net>

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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 surprizing. How about getting perl4 bootstrapped
> first ? It should be way easier than perl5.

If you've looked at the perl build, I am not sure why that is surprising.
Perl4 is no longer bmaked in our source tree.

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-- David  (obrien@FreeBSD.org)

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