linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] out out damn perl

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Date:	Mon, 12 Jan 2015 10:14:26 -0600
From:	Rob Landley <rob@...dley.net>
To:	Richard Weinberger <richard.weinberger@...il.com>,
	Lennart Sorensen <lsorense@...lub.uwaterloo.ca>
CC:	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] out out damn perl

On 01/12/2015 09:27 AM, Richard Weinberger wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 4:16 PM, Lennart Sorensen
> <lsorense@...lub.uwaterloo.ca> wrote:
>> On Tue, Jan 06, 2015 at 05:41:35PM -0600, Rob Landley wrote:
>>> From: Rob Landley <rob@...dley.net>
>>>
>>> Commit e6023367d779 added perl back to the kernel build in -rc6.
>>> Replace 39 lines of perl with 4 lines of shell script.
>>
>> Maybe checkpatch should be updated to look for perl. :)
> 
> Yeah, then checkpatch.pl warn on itself. ;-)

There's a difference between a development tool and a build tool. We
have "make xconfig" and "make gconfig" but don't require qt and gtk to
both be in your cross compile environment in order to build the kernel.

Rob
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