Re: [PATCH] out out damn perl

[Richard Weinberger]

Am 12.01.2015 um 17:14 schrieb Rob Landley:
> On 01/12/2015 09:27 AM, Richard Weinberger wrote:
>> On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 4:16 PM, Lennart Sorensen
>> <lsorense@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> On Tue, Jan 06, 2015 at 05:41:35PM -0600, Rob Landley wrote:
>>>> From: Rob Landley <rob@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>>
>>>> Commit e6023367d779 added perl back to the kernel build in -rc6.
>>>> Replace 39 lines of perl with 4 lines of shell script.
>>>
>>> Maybe checkpatch should be updated to look for perl. :)
>>
>> Yeah, then checkpatch.pl warn on itself. ;-)
> 
> There's a difference between a development tool and a build tool. We
> have "make xconfig" and "make gconfig" but don't require qt and gtk to
> both be in your cross compile environment in order to build the kernel.

You got me wrong. I'm all for removing perl as build dependency.

Thanks,
//richard
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