Re: FICL breakage...

1999-10-02 Thread Joe Abley
On Wed, Sep 29, 1999 at 11:05:49PM +1200, Joe Abley wrote: > On Wed, Sep 29, 1999 at 12:02:09PM +0200, Mark Murray wrote: > > There is breakage in the new FICL. This fixes it... > > > > [awk diff] > > I remember a long time ago someone asked me to make some modifications > to softcore.awk to com

Re: FICL breakage...

1999-10-01 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
Warner Losh wrote: > > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Daniel C. Sobral" writes: > : OTOH, if we are still perl-safe, I could send you the newer perl > : script, so you can adapt from that. > > FWIW, one mus have perl installed to build a kernel. Yeah, but one must have world installed to build

Re: FICL breakage...

1999-09-30 Thread Oliver Fromme
Jordan K. Hubbard wrote in list.freebsd-current: > > Anyway, all good to know. There are almost certainly more perl > > speakers than awk speakers these days, so it probably makes sense > > to do these things in perl rather than awk. > > I think that's sort of in the grey area. There are al

Re: FICL breakage...

1999-09-30 Thread Jordan K. Hubbard
> Anyway, all good to know. There are almost certainly more perl > speakers than awk speakers these days, so it probably makes sense > to do these things in perl rather than awk. I think that's sort of in the grey area. There are also many Hardened Traditionalists(tm) like myself who don't know

Re: FICL breakage...

1999-09-30 Thread Joe Abley
On Wed, Sep 29, 1999 at 09:22:36PM -0400, Garrett Wollman wrote: > < said: > > > On Wed, Sep 29, 1999 at 04:17:50PM -0600, Warner Losh wrote: > >> FWIW, one mus have perl installed to build a kernel. > > > Is that desirable? Or do we need more awk? > > Um, yes. The reason we have Perl in the b

Re: FICL breakage...

1999-09-29 Thread Garrett Wollman
< said: > On Wed, Sep 29, 1999 at 04:17:50PM -0600, Warner Losh wrote: >> FWIW, one mus have perl installed to build a kernel. > Is that desirable? Or do we need more awk? Um, yes. The reason we have Perl in the base system is so that programs like this can be written -- in a way that (a) does

Re: FICL breakage...

1999-09-29 Thread Joe Abley
On Wed, Sep 29, 1999 at 04:17:50PM -0600, Warner Losh wrote: > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Daniel C. Sobral" writes: > : OTOH, if we are still perl-safe, I could send you the newer perl > : script, so you can adapt from that. > > FWIW, one mus have perl installed to build a kernel. Is that d

Re: FICL breakage...

1999-09-29 Thread Warner Losh
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Joe Abley writes: : > FWIW, one mus have perl installed to build a kernel. : : Is that desirable? Or do we need more awk? It simply is. It would be very hard, imho, to replace doug's perl scripts with awk ones. However, my knowledge of perl >> awk, so there maybe

Re: FICL breakage...

1999-09-29 Thread Warner Losh
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Daniel C. Sobral" writes: : OTOH, if we are still perl-safe, I could send you the newer perl : script, so you can adapt from that. FWIW, one mus have perl installed to build a kernel. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebs

Re: FICL breakage...

1999-09-29 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
Mark Murray wrote: > > Hi > > There is breakage in the new FICL. This fixes it... > > diff -u -d -r1.2 softcore.awk > --- softcore.awk1999/01/22 23:52:57 1.2 > +++ softcore.awk1999/09/29 09:47:30 > @@ -91,6 +91,6 @@ >printf "\"quit \";\n"; >printf "\n\nvoid ficlC

Re: FICL breakage...

1999-09-29 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
Joe Abley wrote: > > I don't believe I ever got around to doing it at the time, but I'd > be more than happy to implement the changes now if (a) someone could > remind me what the compression logic should be, and (b) someone could > confirm that these changes haven't already been made :) AFAIK,

Re: FICL breakage...

1999-09-29 Thread Joe Abley
On Wed, Sep 29, 1999 at 12:02:09PM +0200, Mark Murray wrote: > There is breakage in the new FICL. This fixes it... > > [awk diff] I remember a long time ago someone asked me to make some modifications to softcore.awk to compress the textual ficl keywords by eliminating double-spaces and newlines