Subject: Re: getconfig installation ...
To: Luke Mewburn <lukem@NetBSD.org>
From: James Chacon <jmc@NetBSD.org>
List: tech-x11
Date: 03/23/2005 16:50:05
On Thu, Mar 24, 2005 at 09:19:48AM +1100, Luke Mewburn wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 23, 2005 at 03:43:42PM +0000, Matthias Scheler wrote:
>   | The last of the changes for missing files in i386 vs xsrc.
>   | 
>   | + hook getconfig into the build
> 
> We don't ship perl in the base, and last I looked, getconfig
> is a perl script.
> 
> IIRC, we haven't installed other 3rdparty scripts that depend
> upon perl.

Which actually doesn't look horribly difficult to do in awk.

James

> 
> PS: src/x11/TODO has a list of things to do from the original 4.3
> import, and has hints on how to import 4.4 / 4.5 (I.e., diff the
> vendor branches looking for Imakefile and config/* changes that
> might be relevant to the src/x11 reachover stuff).  I recommend
> adding your own 4.5 update TODO items to that file, and keeping it
> up to date if possible.