Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 31 Jan 2003 21:41:32 +0100 | From | Sam Ravnborg <> | Subject | Re: Perl in the toolchain |
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On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 02:48:37PM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote: > On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 01:41:26PM -0600, Kai Germaschewski wrote: > > Generally, we've been trying to not make perl a prequisite for the kernel > > build, and I'd like to keep it that way. Except for some arch specific > > That's pretty much out the window when klibc gets merged, so perl will > indeed be a build requirement for all platforms...
None of the perl scripts looks complicated. Obivious question is if the same functionality could be achived by a simple c program. In the tool chain we use small C utilities in favour of for example perl scripts in several places.
I would like to see perl kept out of the short-list of required programs for the main stream kernels. If the prize to do this is to write one or two small c tools to klibc then I'm willing to pay that.
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