Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 31 Jan 2003 14:50:57 -0800 | From | Ben Greear <> | Subject | Re: Perl in the toolchain |
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Sam Ravnborg wrote: > On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 02:48:37PM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote: > >>On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 01:41:26PM -0600, Kai Germaschewski wrote: >> >>>Generally, we've been trying to not make perl a prequisite for the kernel >>>build, and I'd like to keep it that way. Except for some arch specific >> >>That's pretty much out the window when klibc gets merged, so perl will >>indeed be a build requirement for all platforms... > > > None of the perl scripts looks complicated. > Obivious question is if the same functionality could be achived by a simple > c program. > In the tool chain we use small C utilities in favour of for example > perl scripts in several places.
I've seen a lot of machines, and I've yet to see one that has the gcc toolchain but not perl. Why do you want to keep perl out?
Ben
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