On Mon, Jun 09, 2008 at 10:53:11PM -0500, Rob Landley wrote: > On Monday 09 June 2008 16:27:29 Leon Woestenberg wrote: > > > I submitted a patch to remove the use of perl to build the linux kernel > > > (which HPA added in 2.6.25) not because it affected the result, but > > > because it unnecessarily complicates the build system. (And perl tends > > > to metasticize. > > > > Thanks, I hope it is or gets accepted. > > Nope, Peter Anvin shot it down (saying what I was doing was a strange, purely > academic exercise), and Sam Ravnborg announced his vague intention to rewrite > large chunks of kbuild in perl in the future. (Because nothing > says "maintainability" like perl...) > > For some reason they wanted to mail me about it off-list rather than cc:ing > the list about this plan. Rob - please reread the mails. It was your broken mailer or something that caused it to be off-list. When I hit reply-to-all in mutt I expect it to be sent to the list - and in your case it did not not hit the list. > > A number of embedded people emailed me about it off list, but nobody ever > replied to my post _on_ the list to say I wasn't alone in this, or acked the > patch to say it worked for them, or anything like that. So there was a > perception of zero support, and I gave up trying to follow up on it for > 2.6.25. I've got it working for me, and if more perl shows up I'll come up > with more patches to remove it for my own personal build environment. > > I might try to submit again in a few months Then please try to address the comments first. Sam -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-embedded" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
