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

[Leon Woestenberg]

Hello,

On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 4:06 AM, Paul Mundt <lethal@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Let's look at the rationale presented so far in this thread:
>
>        1 - Being able to build the kernel natively on a constrained
>        target is useful, regardless of whether it is being used for
>        regression/stress testing or for headers installation or whatever
>        else.
>
>        2 - Cross-compiling perl is hard.
>
>        3 - Some oddly constrained target distributions manage to ship
>        with an entire toolchain yet fail to provide any implementation
>        of perl.
>
>        4 - It wasn't required before.
>
> If there is anything I missed, feel free to add it to the list. It was
> difficult to extract even those 4 from the ranting.
>

2 is not hard.

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.



Regards,
-- 
Leon
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