From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Sam Ravnborg Subject: Re: PATCH [0/3]: Simplify the kernel build by removing perl. Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2009 06:35:52 +0100 Message-ID: <20090112053552.GA9061@uranus.ravnborg.org> References: <200901020207.30359.rob@landley.net> <495FEEAF.5020005@zytor.com> <200901032006.47652.rob@landley.net> <20090104030619.GA21466@linux-sh.org> <1231677939.3517.5.camel@gimli.at.home> <31014a580901111928u586e2246uccf370ff941c8a01@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <31014a580901111928u586e2246uccf370ff941c8a01@mail.gmail.com> Sender: linux-embedded-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: "Mark A. Miller" Cc: Bernd Petrovitsch , Leon Woestenberg , Paul Mundt , Rob Landley , "H. Peter Anvin" , Embedded Linux mailing list , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton > There are several other packages which are broken for embedded > architectures, which I will hopefully attempt to fix by submitting patches > upstream. But this is why we should be cautious about including new tools > for compiling the kernel. Sam Ravnborg was correct in that a C program to do > the work would be the proper way. But by not addressing a currently existing > problem with an adequate replacement with something that does not exist > currently, seems faulty. Why are "make headers_install" such a crucial thing for your embedded environmnet? I would assume that if this of such improtance then there is also someone to step up and contribute a C version of it. Sam