Re: Faster depend written in Perl
Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Sat, 27 Jul 1996 18:15:26 +0100 (BST)
> > Defaulting to the perl version is probably better since most people
> > don't have mawk.
>
> The traditional answer to this has been that not all Linux boxes have
> perl, but all have awk. So we can't require perl to build the kernel.
We have required perl to build the NCR scsi driver for a while