In message <20080610075432.GB776@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> you wrote: > > (Maybe I _am_ the only person who still cares about > > building on a host without perl. If I wasn't, somebody else would have acked > > the patch...) > > perl is pretty standard and I fail to see the benefits of avoiding it. > For embedded development I see even less benefits as I assume > any sane embedded development environment are based on a > cross-toolchain so you do the build on a high perfomance box. > > Building everything for my arm board on the arm board would be a disater > for example. Well, compiling the Linux kernel on the native system with the root file system mounted over NFS has always been a really good regression test for us. It exercises a *lot* of kernel code - tasks, memory, network, ... Being unable to do this just because we now also would need a native Perl is indeed a PITA... Best regards, Wolfgang Denk -- DENX Software Engineering GmbH, MD: Wolfgang Denk & Detlev Zundel HRB 165235 Munich, Office: Kirchenstr.5, D-82194 Groebenzell, Germany Phone: (+49)-8142-66989-10 Fax: (+49)-8142-66989-80 Email: wd@xxxxxxx You don't have to worry about me. I might have been born yesterday... but I stayed up all night. -- 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
