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

Mark Miller
2009-01-02T10:04:13Z

On Jan 2, 2009, at 4:02 AM, Mark Miller wrote:

>
> 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.

That is, *do* have Perl. Typo there.

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

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Mark Miller
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