Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758041AbZABKCx (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 Jan 2009 05:02:53 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757334AbZABKCn (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 Jan 2009 05:02:43 -0500 Received: from mail-ew0-f17.google.com ([209.85.219.17]:41915 "EHLO mail-ew0-f17.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757318AbZABKCm convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 Jan 2009 05:02:42 -0500 Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Rob Landley , Embedded Linux mailing list , Andrew Morton , "H. Peter Anvin" , Sam Ravnborg Message-Id: <8A892FD3-50DE-4AFF-A314-5BB3284644EC@mirell.org> From: Mark Miller To: Arkadiusz Miskiewicz In-Reply-To: <200901021026.37905.a.miskiewicz@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v930.3) Subject: Re: PATCH [0/3]: Simplify the kernel build by removing perl. Date: Fri, 2 Jan 2009 04:02:33 -0600 References: <200901020207.30359.rob@landley.net> <200901021026.37905.a.miskiewicz@gmail.com> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.930.3) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1201 Lines: 39 On Jan 2, 2009, at 3:26 AM, Arkadiusz Miskiewicz wrote: > On Friday 02 of January 2009, Rob Landley wrote: >> Before 2.6.25 (specifically git >> bdc807871d58285737d50dc6163d0feb72cb0dc2 ) >> building a Linux kernel never required perl to be installed on the >> build >> system. (Various development and debugging scripts were written in >> perl >> and python and such, but they weren't involved in actually building a >> kernel.) Building a kernel before 2.6.25 could be done with a minimal >> system built from gcc, binutils, bash, make, busybox, uClibc, and >> the Linux >> kernel, and nothing else. > > And now bash is going to be required... while some distros don't > need/have > bash. /bin/sh should be enough. Which distros only have /bin/sh which do not have Perl? I'm honestly curious. > -- > Arkadiusz Miśkiewicz PLD/Linux Team > arekm / maven.pl http://ftp.pld-linux.org/ -- Mark Miller mark@mirell.org -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/