Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753295AbZALFYA (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Jan 2009 00:24:00 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751066AbZALFXs (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Jan 2009 00:23:48 -0500 Received: from yx-out-2324.google.com ([74.125.44.30]:60828 "EHLO yx-out-2324.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750826AbZALFXs (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Jan 2009 00:23:48 -0500 Message-ID: <31014a580901112123w43ceb2eaobe7b6952f1c00717@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2009 23:23:46 -0600 From: "Mark A. Miller" To: "H. Peter Anvin" Subject: Re: PATCH [0/3]: Simplify the kernel build by removing perl. Cc: "Bernd Petrovitsch" , "Leon Woestenberg" , "Paul Mundt" , "Rob Landley" , "Embedded Linux mailing list" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "Andrew Morton" , "Sam Ravnborg" In-Reply-To: <496AD0E9.2020909@zytor.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 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> <1231677939.3517.5.camel@gimli.at.home> <31014a580901111936q41486efagcb90af2b6880a470@mail.gmail.com> <496AD0E9.2020909@zytor.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1423 Lines: 46 On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 11:11 PM, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > Mark A. Miller wrote: >> >> Actually, something that has amused me during this discussion, is that >> right now, the latest stable Perl (5.8.8) does not compile correctly >> on a uclibc host... >> > > The latest stable Perl is 5.10.0, and the latest of the 5.8 series is 5.8.9. > > -hpa > > -- > H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center > I work for Intel. I don't speak on their behalf. My mistake. However, http://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/blob_plain/HEAD:/hints/linux.sh still has the issue, specifically: if test -L /lib/libc.so.6; then libc=`ls -l /lib/libc.so.6 | awk '{print $NF}'` libc=/lib/$libc fi So, my version was incorrect, yet the problem still exists. I've got a patch, need to submit it, yet Perl *does not compile* on a uclibc target *as is*. And this is why we should avoid adding new tools to build the kernel, because they introduce yet more break points, as such. Thanks. -- Mark A. Miller mark@mirell.org "My greatest strength, I guess it would be my humility. My greatest weakness, it's possible that I'm a little too awesome" - Barack Obama -- 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/