linux-kernel - Re: PATCH [0/3]: Simplify the kernel build by removing perl.

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Date:	Fri, 2 Jan 2009 04:02:33 -0600
From:	Mark Miller <mark@...ell.org>
To:	Arkadiusz Miskiewicz <a.miskiewicz@...il.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Rob Landley <rob@...dley.net>,
	Embedded Linux mailing list <linux-embedded@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>
Subject: Re: PATCH [0/3]: Simplify the kernel build by removing perl.


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@...ell.org




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