Messages in this thread | | | From | Mark Miller <> | Subject | Re: PATCH [0/3]: Simplify the kernel build by removing perl. | Date | Fri, 2 Jan 2009 04:02:33 -0600 |
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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.
> -- > Arkadiusz Miśkiewicz PLD/Linux Team > arekm / maven.pl http://ftp.pld-linux.org/
-- Mark Miller mark@mirell.org
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