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From: "Mike Frysinger" <vapier.adi@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: PATCH [0/3]: Simplify the kernel build by removing perl.
Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2009 08:29:24 -0500
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To: Leon Woestenberg <leon.woestenberg@gmail.com>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>, Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>, Embedded Linux mailing list <linux-embedded@vger.kernel.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>, Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>

On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 05:23, Leon Woestenberg wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 4:06 AM, Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> wrote:
>> Let's look at the rationale presented so far in this thread:
>>
>>        2 - Cross-compiling perl is hard.
>
> 2 is not hard.

i dont know where you're getting this mythical version of perl, but
anything beyond micro-perl is a pita.  and micro-perl is practically
worthless.  maybe for kernel/
-mike