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

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Message-Id: <1231677939.3517.5.camel@gimli.at.home>
Date:	Sun, 11 Jan 2009 13:45:39 +0100
From:	Bernd Petrovitsch <bernd@...mix.at>
To:	Leon Woestenberg <leon.woestenberg@...il.com>
Cc:	Paul Mundt <lethal@...ux-sh.org>, Rob Landley <rob@...dley.net>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.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.

On Son, 2009-01-04 at 11:23 +0100, Leon Woestenberg wrote:
[...]
> On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 4:06 AM, Paul Mundt <lethal@...ux-sh.org> wrote:
[...]

I'm ignoring the "cross-compile perl" issue - haven't tried it for
years.

> 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.

perl is IMHO special (and quite different to others - including
especially autotools): perl5 is used widely enough so that "one somewhat
recent version" should cover all of 30 software packages.
The hard part are the CPAN modules and their versions which are really a
PITA.
As long as you don't use modules from CPAN, "perl5" should be specific
enough.

	Bernd
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