On Fri, Oct 04, 2013 at 02:34:01PM -0400, Nicolas Pitre wrote: > Do you have an example of something that does require perl to build the > kernel on ARM? I was under the impression that people try to avoid it > as much as possible in general. > > I'm personally sitting on the fence between effectively adding a new > kernel build dependencies or carrying the output of the perl script. > But if the kernel build does already require perl in practice then this > might tip the balance. That is really not a concern with the modern kbuild. It has supported having shipped versions of generated files included in the source tree for years. So, we can have the perl version included (the preferred form for editing) while avoiding the issue of requiring everyone to have perl. In other words, if you want to build a kernel, you don't need perl for this. If you want to edit the "preferred" form, then you do need perl so that the "preferred" form can be turned into assembly to update the shipped version. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-crypto" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
