Re: [PATCH] Use sed instead of perl to generatex86/kernel/cpu/capflags.c.

From: Jesper Juhl
Date: Sun Jan 16 2011 - 15:05:52 EST


On Sun, 16 Jan 2011, Rob Landley wrote:

> From: Rob Landley <rlandley@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Generate capflags.c with sed (POSIX 2008) instead of perl.
>

While I'm not personally a great perl fan, this still begs the
question, why?

We already depend on perl for other stuff, so why replace something that
works with something that may or may not work?


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