Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753351AbZAKMre (ORCPT ); Sun, 11 Jan 2009 07:47:34 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751384AbZAKMrX (ORCPT ); Sun, 11 Jan 2009 07:47:23 -0500 Received: from ns.firmix.at ([62.141.48.66]:3375 "EHLO ns.firmix.at" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751221AbZAKMrW (ORCPT ); Sun, 11 Jan 2009 07:47:22 -0500 Subject: Re: PATCH [0/3]: Simplify the kernel build by removing perl. From: Bernd Petrovitsch To: Leon Woestenberg Cc: Paul Mundt , Rob Landley , "H. Peter Anvin" , Embedded Linux mailing list , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton , Sam Ravnborg In-Reply-To: References: <200901020207.30359.rob@landley.net> <495FEEAF.5020005@zytor.com> <200901032006.47652.rob@landley.net> <20090104030619.GA21466@linux-sh.org> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: Firmix Software GmbH Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2009 13:45:39 +0100 Message-Id: <1231677939.3517.5.camel@gimli.at.home> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.22.3.1 (2.22.3.1-1.fc9) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Firmix-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.56 on ns.firmix.at X-Firmix-Spam-Score: -1.096 () AWL,SPF_HELO_PASS,SPF_PASS X-Firmix-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.096 required=5 X-Spam-Score: -1.096 () AWL,SPF_HELO_PASS,SPF_PASS X-Firmix-Envelope-From: X-Firmix-Envelope-To: Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1219 Lines: 31 On Son, 2009-01-04 at 11:23 +0100, Leon Woestenberg wrote: [...] > On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 4:06 AM, Paul Mundt wrote: [...] I'm ignoring the "cross-compile perl" issue - haven't tried it for years. > 5. Tool *version* dependency is hard to get right. When cross-building > 30 software packages all requiring native perl, we probably need to > build a few versions of perl (native), one for each set of packages. perl is IMHO special (and quite different to others - including especially autotools): perl5 is used widely enough so that "one somewhat recent version" should cover all of 30 software packages. The hard part are the CPAN modules and their versions which are really a PITA. As long as you don't use modules from CPAN, "perl5" should be specific enough. Bernd -- Firmix Software GmbH http://www.firmix.at/ mobil: +43 664 4416156 fax: +43 1 7890849-55 Embedded Linux Development and Services -- 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/