linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/3] Replace kernel/timeconst.pl with kernel/timeconst.sh

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Message-ID: <4B203691.7020203@zytor.com>
Date:	Wed, 09 Dec 2009 15:45:21 -0800
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	Rob Landley <rob@...dley.net>
CC:	Michal Marek <mmarek@...e.cz>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] Replace kernel/timeconst.pl with kernel/timeconst.sh

On 12/09/2009 03:40 PM, Rob Landley wrote:
> 
> This is why reducing the perl version to just the precomputed constants 
> wouldn't work either.  (They're there so that you only need to install a 
> random cpan library when surprised by a build break on non-x86 machines.)
> 

It's not "a random CPAN library" - it's a core module.

	-hpa
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