On Fri, Jan 02, 2009 at 10:26:37AM +0100, Arkadiusz Miskiewicz wrote: > On Friday 02 of January 2009, Rob Landley wrote: > > Before 2.6.25 (specifically git bdc807871d58285737d50dc6163d0feb72cb0dc2 ) > > building a Linux kernel never required perl to be installed on the build > > system. (Various development and debugging scripts were written in perl > > and python and such, but they weren't involved in actually building a > > kernel.) Building a kernel before 2.6.25 could be done with a minimal > > system built from gcc, binutils, bash, make, busybox, uClibc, and the Linux > > kernel, and nothing else. > > And now bash is going to be required... while some distros don't need/have > bash. /bin/sh should be enough. *nod* bash is in many ways a worse requirement than perl. strict posix /bin/sh + awk + sed would be nicest, but if that's too much work perl seems reasonable. -- 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
