Re: PATCH [0/3]: Simplify the kernel build by removing perl.

Mark Miller
2009-01-02T10:02:53Z

On Jan 2, 2009, at 3:26 AM, Arkadiusz Miskiewicz wrote:

> On Friday 02 of January 2009, Rob Landley wrote:
>> Before 2.6.25 (specifically git
>> bdc807871d58285737d50dc6163d0feb72cb0dc2 )
>> building a Linux kernel never required perl to be installed on the
>> build
>> system. (Various development and debugging scripts were written in
>> perl
>> and python and such, but they weren't involved in actually building a
>> kernel.) Building a kernel before 2.6.25 could be done with a minimal
>> system built from gcc, binutils, bash, make, busybox, uClibc, and
>> the Linux
>> kernel, and nothing else.
>
> And now bash is going to be required... while some distros don't
> need/have
> bash. /bin/sh should be enough.

Which distros only have /bin/sh which do not have Perl? I'm honestly
curious.

> --
> Arkadiusz Miśkiewicz PLD/Linux Team
> arekm / maven.pl http://ftp.pld-linux.org/

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