linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/3] Replace kernel/timeconst.pl with kernel/timeconst.sh

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Date:	Wed, 09 Dec 2009 17:53:42 -0800
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	Rob Landley <rob@...dley.net>
CC:	Michal Marek <mmarek@...e.cz>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] Replace kernel/timeconst.pl with kernel/timeconst.sh

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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