Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Faster depend written in Perl | Date | Sat, 27 Jul 1996 12:08:31 -0600 | From | Drew Eckhardt <> |
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In message <m0ukCxb-0005FbC@lightning.swansea.linux.org.uk>, alan@lxorguk.ukuu. org.uk writes: >> > Defaulting to the perl version is probably better since most people >> > don't have mawk. >> >> The traditional answer to this has been that not all Linux boxes have >> perl, but all have awk. So we can't require perl to build the kernel. > >We have required perl to build the NCR scsi driver for a while
We require perl to assemble the code running on the NCR chip; although we also distribute a .h file with already assembled code, so unless you're modifying the NCR's code (or some one patches things out of order and breaks the time stamps), you don't need perl.
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