From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:60546 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1759381AbZLJCAE (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Dec 2009 21:00:04 -0500 Message-ID: <4B2054A6.6040502@zytor.com> Date: Wed, 09 Dec 2009 17:53:42 -0800 From: "H. Peter Anvin" MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] Replace kernel/timeconst.pl with kernel/timeconst.sh References: <200912080317.08254.rob@landley.net> <200912091740.43147.rob@landley.net> <4B203691.7020203@zytor.com> <200912091950.58950.rob@landley.net> In-Reply-To: <200912091950.58950.rob@landley.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kbuild-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: To: Rob Landley Cc: Michal Marek , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org 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