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

[Mike A. Harris]

Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
> 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.)

X.Org and XFree86 already use perl during build, and have done so for
many many years.  bdftruncate.pl (and previously ucs2any.pl which is
now written in C) are used during build time.  Also, there is another
perl script which escapes me for the moment that is used to produce
the modeline database that gets compiled into the server.

Since perl has been used for years now, I don't see any major reason
why it shouldn't continue to be a valid tool to use if it is useful.