I am perfectly aware of the way OpenBSD builds contrib software. I am just
making a point that they have found perl 5.6.0 is stable enough to be
included into their OS.
On 07-Apr-00 Kris Kennaway wrote:
> On Thu, 6 Apr 2000, Alexander N. Kabaev wrote:
>
>> According to OpenBSD ournal site, OpenBSD-current has perl 5.6.0 in it's
>> source
>> tree already.
>
> OpenBSD don't even try to make their "bundled software" comply with the
> rest of the system build architecture - they basically just import the
> perl distribution into gnu/usr.bin/, munge some of the build bits, and let
> the software build the way it wants to. Needless to say, thats not an
> acceptable style for FreeBSD, not to mention probably breaking certain
> features we support such as cross-compilation :-)
>
> Kris
>
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Date: 07-Apr-00
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