Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 11 Jan 2009 23:23:46 -0600 | From | "Mark A. Miller" <> | Subject | Re: PATCH [0/3]: Simplify the kernel build by removing perl. |
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On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 11:11 PM, H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> wrote: > Mark A. Miller wrote: >> >> Actually, something that has amused me during this discussion, is that >> right now, the latest stable Perl (5.8.8) does not compile correctly >> on a uclibc host... >> > > The latest stable Perl is 5.10.0, and the latest of the 5.8 series is 5.8.9. > > -hpa > > -- > H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center > I work for Intel. I don't speak on their behalf.
My mistake. However, http://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/blob_plain/HEAD:/hints/linux.sh still has the issue, specifically:
if test -L /lib/libc.so.6; then libc=`ls -l /lib/libc.so.6 | awk '{print $NF}'` libc=/lib/$libc fi
So, my version was incorrect, yet the problem still exists. I've got a patch, need to submit it, yet Perl *does not compile* on a uclibc target *as is*.
And this is why we should avoid adding new tools to build the kernel, because they introduce yet more break points, as such.
Thanks.
-- Mark A. Miller mark@mirell.org
"My greatest strength, I guess it would be my humility. My greatest weakness, it's possible that I'm a little too awesome" - Barack Obama
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