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Message-ID: <31014a580901112123w43ceb2eaobe7b6952f1c00717@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2009 23:23:46 -0600
From: "Mark A. Miller" <mark@...ell.org>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
Cc: "Bernd Petrovitsch" <bernd@...mix.at>,
"Leon Woestenberg" <leon.woestenberg@...il.com>,
"Paul Mundt" <lethal@...ux-sh.org>,
"Rob Landley" <rob@...dley.net>,
"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 Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 11:11 PM, H. Peter Anvin <hpa@...or.com> wrote:
> Mark A. Miller wrote:
>>
>> Actually, something that has amused me during this discussion, is that
>> right now, the latest stable Perl (5.8.8) does not compile correctly
>> on a uclibc host...
>>
>
> The latest stable Perl is 5.10.0, and the latest of the 5.8 series is 5.8.9.
>
> -hpa
>
> --
> H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
> I work for Intel. I don't speak on their behalf.
My mistake. However,
http://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/blob_plain/HEAD:/hints/linux.sh
still has the issue, specifically:
if test -L /lib/libc.so.6; then
libc=`ls -l /lib/libc.so.6 | awk '{print $NF}'`
libc=/lib/$libc
fi
So, my version was incorrect, yet the problem still exists. I've got a
patch, need to submit it, yet Perl *does not compile* on a uclibc
target *as is*.
And this is why we should avoid adding new tools to build the kernel,
because they introduce yet more break points, as such.
Thanks.
--
Mark A. Miller
mark@...ell.org
"My greatest strength, I guess it would be my humility. My greatest
weakness, it's possible that I'm a little too awesome" - Barack Obama
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