From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
Cc: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] Replace kernel/timeconst.pl with kernel/timeconst.sh
Date: Wed, 09 Dec 2009 17:53:42 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B2054A6.6040502@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200912091950.58950.rob@landley.net>
On 12/09/2009 05:50 PM, Rob Landley wrote:
> On Wednesday 09 December 2009 17:45:21 H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>> On 12/09/2009 03:40 PM, Rob Landley wrote:
>>> This is why reducing the perl version to just the precomputed constants
>>> wouldn't work either. (They're there so that you only need to install a
>>> random cpan library when surprised by a build break on non-x86 machines.)
>>
>> It's not "a random CPAN library" - it's a core module.
>
> Then why cache large quantities of its output and test for its existence?
>
To support archaic Perl versions and Perl binaries without libraries.
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-12-10 2:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 50+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-12-08 9:17 [PATCH 0/3] clean out Perl from build system Rob Landley
2009-12-08 9:19 ` [PATCH 1/3] Replace kernel/timeconst.pl with kernel/timeconst.sh Rob Landley
2009-12-09 15:45 ` Michal Marek
2009-12-09 23:40 ` Rob Landley
2009-12-09 23:45 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-12-10 1:50 ` Rob Landley
2009-12-10 1:53 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2009-12-10 13:52 ` Michal Marek
2009-12-10 23:16 ` Rob Landley
2009-12-11 15:31 ` Michal Marek
2009-12-11 19:13 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-12-12 0:49 ` Rob Landley
2009-12-08 9:21 ` [PATCH 2/3] Remove perl from make headers_install Rob Landley
2009-12-08 9:22 ` [PATCH 3/3] Convert kernel/cpu/mkcapflags.pl to kernel/cpu/mkcapflags.sh Rob Landley
2009-12-08 10:23 ` [PATCH 0/3] clean out Perl from build system Michal Marek
2009-12-08 15:08 ` Rob Landley
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2009-09-19 1:25 [PATCH 0/3] Perl removal patches for 2.6.31 Rob Landley
2009-09-19 1:33 ` [PATCH 1/3]: Replace kernel/timeconst.pl with kernel/timeconst.sh Rob Landley
2009-01-02 8:07 PATCH [0/3]: Simplify the kernel build by removing perl Rob Landley
2009-01-02 8:13 ` [PATCH 1/3]: Replace kernel/timeconst.pl with kernel/timeconst.sh Rob Landley
2009-01-02 8:13 ` Rob Landley
2009-01-02 9:04 ` Sam Ravnborg
2009-01-02 12:00 ` Rob Landley
2009-01-02 19:33 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-01-04 1:32 ` Rob Landley
2009-01-04 1:35 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-01-04 12:07 ` Alan Cox
2009-01-04 18:36 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-01-04 19:03 ` Rob Landley
2009-01-04 20:39 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-01-05 0:59 ` Rob Landley
2009-01-03 6:28 ` Harvey Harrison
2009-01-03 12:28 ` Ingo Oeser
2009-01-04 1:36 ` Rob Landley
2009-01-04 1:36 ` Rob Landley
2009-01-04 5:07 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2009-01-04 6:43 ` Rob Landley
2009-01-04 22:13 ` Jamie Lokier
2009-01-05 0:15 ` Bernd Petrovitsch
2009-01-05 2:23 ` Jamie Lokier
2009-01-05 10:46 ` Bernd Petrovitsch
2009-01-05 15:01 ` Jamie Lokier
2009-01-05 16:18 ` Bernd Petrovitsch
2009-01-06 0:06 ` Rob Landley
2009-01-05 21:07 ` Rob Landley
2009-01-05 4:50 ` Rob Landley
2009-01-05 12:29 ` Bernd Petrovitsch
2009-01-04 21:51 ` Alejandro Mery
2009-01-04 7:15 ` Michal Jaegermann
2009-01-04 7:15 ` Michal Jaegermann
2009-01-05 0:41 ` Ray Lee
2009-01-05 5:08 ` Rob Landley
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