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

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    Mark Miller
    mark@mirell.org




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