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Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2003 21:41:32 +0100
From: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
To: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Cc: Kai Germaschewski <kai@tp1.ruhr-uni-bochum.de>,
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Subject: Re: Perl in the toolchain
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On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 02:48:37PM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 01:41:26PM -0600, Kai Germaschewski wrote:
> > Generally, we've been trying to not make perl a prequisite for the kernel 
> > build, and I'd like to keep it that way. Except for some arch specific 
> 
> That's pretty much out the window when klibc gets merged, so perl will
> indeed be a build requirement for all platforms...

None of the perl scripts looks complicated.
Obivious question is if the same functionality could be achived by a simple
c program.
In the tool chain we use small C utilities in favour of for example
perl scripts in several places.

I would like to see perl kept out of the short-list of required programs
for the main stream kernels.
If the prize to do this is to write one or two small c tools to klibc
then I'm willing to pay that.

	Sam
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