From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Wolfgang Denk Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/1] Embedded Maintainer(s), linux-embedded@vger list Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2008 11:09:24 +0200 Message-ID: <20080610090924.150D9248AC@gemini.denx.de> References: <20080610075432.GB776@uranus.ravnborg.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Return-path: In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 10 Jun 2008 09:54:32 +0200." <20080610075432.GB776@uranus.ravnborg.org> Sender: linux-embedded-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Sam Ravnborg Cc: Rob Landley , Leon Woestenberg , David Woodhouse , linux-embedded@vger.kernel.org In message <20080610075432.GB776@uranus.ravnborg.org> you wrote: > > (Maybe I _am_ the only person who still cares about > > building on a host without perl. If I wasn't, somebody else would have acked > > the patch...) > > perl is pretty standard and I fail to see the benefits of avoiding it. > For embedded development I see even less benefits as I assume > any sane embedded development environment are based on a > cross-toolchain so you do the build on a high perfomance box. > > Building everything for my arm board on the arm board would be a disater > for example. Well, compiling the Linux kernel on the native system with the root file system mounted over NFS has always been a really good regression test for us. It exercises a *lot* of kernel code - tasks, memory, network, ... Being unable to do this just because we now also would need a native Perl is indeed a PITA... Best regards, Wolfgang Denk -- DENX Software Engineering GmbH, MD: Wolfgang Denk & Detlev Zundel HRB 165235 Munich, Office: Kirchenstr.5, D-82194 Groebenzell, Germany Phone: (+49)-8142-66989-10 Fax: (+49)-8142-66989-80 Email: wd@denx.de You don't have to worry about me. I might have been born yesterday... but I stayed up all night.