From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mx2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:48732 "EHLO mx2.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756109AbcGZUkH (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Jul 2016 16:40:07 -0400 Subject: Re: Officially vetted programming languages References: From: Michal Marek Message-ID: <5797CA9D.1090803@suse.com> Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2016 22:39:57 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kbuild-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: To: Alexey Dobriyan Cc: linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org Dne 25.7.2016 v 15:11 Alexey Dobriyan napsal(a): > Do I understand correctly that POSIX sh and GNU make are > the only acceptable languages in kernel build Also sed, awk and bc. Perl is required to some extent (by headers_install and some arch drivers). Plus ia64 has a python script. But you would need to provide a compelling reason for introducing another build dependency. Michal