Re: PATCH [0/3]: Simplify the kernel build by removing perl.

[Mark Miller]

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 MiÅkiewicz        PLD/Linux Team
> arekm / maven.pl            http://ftp.pld-linux.org/

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Mark Miller
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