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

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Message-ID: <c384c5ea0901040223l6e53f041s9f7cdea20c9d1d8d@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Sun, 4 Jan 2009 11:23:39 +0100
From:	"Leon Woestenberg" <leon.woestenberg@...il.com>
To:	"Paul Mundt" <lethal@...ux-sh.org>,
	"Rob Landley" <rob@...dley.net>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	"Leon Woestenberg" <leon.woestenberg@...il.com>,
	"Embedded Linux mailing list" <linux-embedded@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	"Andrew Morton" <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"Sam Ravnborg" <sam@...nborg.org>
Subject: Re: PATCH [0/3]: Simplify the kernel build by removing perl.

Hello,

On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 4:06 AM, Paul Mundt <lethal@...ux-sh.org> wrote:
> Let's look at the rationale presented so far in this thread:
>
>        1 - Being able to build the kernel natively on a constrained
>        target is useful, regardless of whether it is being used for
>        regression/stress testing or for headers installation or whatever
>        else.
>
>        2 - Cross-compiling perl is hard.
>
>        3 - Some oddly constrained target distributions manage to ship
>        with an entire toolchain yet fail to provide any implementation
>        of perl.
>
>        4 - It wasn't required before.
>
> If there is anything I missed, feel free to add it to the list. It was
> difficult to extract even those 4 from the ranting.
>

2 is not hard.

5. Tool *version* dependency is hard to get right. When cross-building
30 software packages all requiring native perl, we probably need to
build a few versions of perl (native), one for each set of packages.



Regards,
-- 
Leon
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