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Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2003 14:50:57 -0800
From: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
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Subject: Re: Perl in the toolchain
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Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> 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've seen a lot of machines, and I've yet to see one that has the gcc toolchain
but not perl.  Why do you want to keep perl out?

Ben


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