Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758763AbZAHN3g (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Jan 2009 08:29:36 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751072AbZAHN30 (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Jan 2009 08:29:26 -0500 Received: from wf-out-1314.google.com ([209.85.200.169]:26397 "EHLO wf-out-1314.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751003AbZAHN3Z (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Jan 2009 08:29:25 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :references; b=ZlXX3D9Ev/XFYcLFqI0xhKhwn6aiCnAphNyZUPH88+vnN3Q8Cox9PlmqNo19iU6g+n tTmTlCZDGh94tPAGfMuxleHIpDhMW4jNN2WKMr2L3eaJKmmhaSzzq0yNpVWS1V+ivnIQ w3GtEn9LSxamT6/nskRukv8N1tBoFNGTIqG64= Message-ID: <8bd0f97a0901080529j6018d5e4j66d0409bd7093425@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2009 08:29:24 -0500 From: "Mike Frysinger" To: "Leon Woestenberg" Subject: Re: PATCH [0/3]: Simplify the kernel build by removing perl. Cc: "Paul Mundt" , "Rob Landley" , "H. Peter Anvin" , "Embedded Linux mailing list" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "Andrew Morton" , "Sam Ravnborg" In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <200901020207.30359.rob@landley.net> <495FEEAF.5020005@zytor.com> <200901032006.47652.rob@landley.net> <20090104030619.GA21466@linux-sh.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 677 Lines: 17 On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 05:23, Leon Woestenberg wrote: > On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 4:06 AM, Paul Mundt wrote: >> Let's look at the rationale presented so far in this thread: >> >> 2 - Cross-compiling perl is hard. > > 2 is not hard. i dont know where you're getting this mythical version of perl, but anything beyond micro-perl is a pita. and micro-perl is practically worthless. maybe for kernel/ -mike -- 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/