Re: Lua as a scripting language in NetBSD

[Antti Kantee <pooka%cs.hut.fi@localhost>]

On Sun Oct 18 2009 at 07:53:09 +1100, Simon Burge wrote:
> Adam Hoka wrote:
> 
> > You forgot the most important: the ability to cross compile the
> > interpreter, which rules out perl( and I think python too).
> 
> What is that statement based on?  In $PREVIOUSJOB we didn't
> cross-compile perl, but we did cross-compile a number of different
> programs.  Some were not as easy as some (php5 comes to mind), but
> that sort of statement needs a bit of clarification.

Wasn't perl one of the succesful examples in Krister's pkgsrc crossbuild
project?