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

Sam Ravnborg
2009-01-12T10:16:34Z

On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 11:50:31PM -0600, Mark A. Miller wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 11:35 PM, Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> wrote:
> >> 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?
>
> Sanity check. If the environment cannot replicate itself, then
> something has been faulty in the cross-compiling stage, that was used
> to propagate a native environment for the target architecture.

So you actually build your target toolchain on your target?

Sam