Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 09 Dec 2009 17:53:42 -0800 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/3] Replace kernel/timeconst.pl with kernel/timeconst.sh |
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On 12/09/2009 05:50 PM, Rob Landley wrote: > On Wednesday 09 December 2009 17:45:21 H. Peter Anvin wrote: >> On 12/09/2009 03:40 PM, Rob Landley wrote: >>> This is why reducing the perl version to just the precomputed constants >>> wouldn't work either. (They're there so that you only need to install a >>> random cpan library when surprised by a build break on non-x86 machines.) >> >> It's not "a random CPAN library" - it's a core module. > > Then why cache large quantities of its output and test for its existence? >
To support archaic Perl versions and Perl binaries without libraries.
-hpa
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