Modularization development notes [was Re: RFA sent to the ArchWG]

[Jeremy C. Reed]

On Mon, 11 Apr 2005, Matthieu Herrb wrote:

> Otherwise I still re-iterate my concerns that the modularized tree
> should not depend on GPL licenced tools more than necessary. Please
> don't let gnu make or gnu m4 only construct leak in X.Org. OpenBSD (and
> NetBSD if I understand correctly) want to be able to build X using only
> the base system, which doesn't include the gnu version of these tools.

Yes, no GNU Make, no GNU m4. And also no perl in core NetBSD. Please don't
require perl for any build.

(By the way, NetBSD is still XFree86. We also do cross-building of
XFree86.)

 Jeremy C. Reed

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