Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1998 23:17:01 -0800 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com> To: Chuck Robey <chuckr@mat.net> Cc: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, John Birrell <jb@cimlogic.com.au>, forrie@forrie.com Subject: Re: FreeBSD Buildworld fails Message-ID: <46039.913792621@zippy.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 15 Dec 1998 22:19:07 EST." <Pine.BSF.4.05.9812152203520.348-100000@picnic.mat.net>
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> OTOH, perl seems to have just one _really_ incompatible step, going from > the very old 4.036 to the more recent 5.* versions. I don't split the Unfortunately, as I'm now coming to understand, make that 2 highly incompatible steps. 4.036 to 5.004 and 5.004 to 5.005 (which we now use). Yes, that's correct, a bunch of stuff broke in the land of perl when 5.005 came out, some of which is currently causing a good deal of grief to folks like Intel. I've tried to talk them through the process of building a perl-less 3.0 which they can then add their own pre-5.005 version of perl to, but apparently this job is causing them more hassle than I expected it to. I guess our source building tools aren't for everyone. :( - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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