Hello all, On Fri, Jan 2, 2009 at 9:07 AM, Rob Landley <rob@xxxxxxxxxxx> 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. (Embedded developers creating clean cross compile environments that > I agree with Rob that the amount of required dependencies should be kept to a minimum. If we only use 0.5% of a certain language (or: dependent package), then rather implement that 0.5% in the existing language. Dependencies very quickly become dependency hell. If A requires B, then A also inherits all (future) requirements of B, etc. etc. In my daily software development work with Linux and GNU software in general, 10% of it is spent fighting/removing these extremely "thin" or false depencies, so that it is usuable in embedded devices. Regards, -- Leon -- 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
