On Thu, Dec 06, 2007 at 02:05:15PM -0800, Luck, Tony wrote: > > What was the exact reason switching to phython and can we do the same in perl? > > It was a shell script (using awk) before it was pythonised. The > motivation was correct functionality when cross-building on a > 32-bit host. Here's the commit: > > http://tinyurl.com/28hmoc If you read the comments in the phyton file is says: +# Based on a shell/awk script originally written by Harish Patil, +# which was converted to Perl by Matthew Chapman, which was converted +# to Python by David Mosberger. So somewhere a perl variant has existed. Sam - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ia64" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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