Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Faster depend written in Perl | Date | Sat, 27 Jul 1996 12:47:36 -0400 | From | Johnny Yuma <> |
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If space is very tight, would you *really* be compiling a kernel? My /usr/src/linux directory is 33+ megs (2.0.7). i tend to think that making the default the fastest way, and having a backup system for people who can't use the faster version (i.e. those who are perlless =).
Just my $0.02. -J
Todd Huss writes: : On Sat, 27 Jul 1996, G Sumner Hayes wrote: : : > quinlan@charcoal.eg.bucknell.edu (Daniel Quinlan) writes: : > > : > > Defaulting to the perl version is probably better since most people : > > don't have mawk. : > : > The traditional answer to this has been that not all Linux boxes have : > perl, but all have awk. So we can't require perl to build the kernel. : > : > I don't know how valid this argument is these days, though. : : I would say it's still a valid argument, atleast for me ;-). In my case I : use Linux on a laptop where space is very tight, so I don't install Perl. : : -Todd : : ~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~ : Todd C. Huss : thuss@gnu.uvm.edu huss@emba.uvm.edu husst@btv.ibm.com : http://www.emba.uvm.edu/~huss/ : ~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~ : : :
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