cvs commit: src Makefile.inc1

Sheldon Hearn sheldonh at starjuice.net
Sat Dec 13 08:29:46 PST 2003


On (2003/12/13 17:18), Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:

> >   Perl is no longer needed for installworld, but makewhatis(1) is now a
> >   bootstrap tool.  Also fix a NOPERL nit: PERL5LIB is not needed in the
> >   cross-build environment if NOPERL is defined.
> 
> It is now possible to build and install a 4.x world with no Perl at
> all.  However, Perl is still required to build kernels and to run
> mergemaster.

Interesting; mergemaster is a shell script.  Do you know which utilities
that mergemaster uses are perl scripts?

Ciao,
Sheldon.


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