On Wednesday 09 December 2009 17:45:21 H. Peter Anvin wrote: > On 12/09/2009 03:40 PM, Rob Landley wrote: > > This is why reducing the perl version to just the precomputed constants > > wouldn't work either. (They're there so that you only need to install a > > random cpan library when surprised by a build break on non-x86 machines.) > > It's not "a random CPAN library" - it's a core module. Then why cache large quantities of its output and test for its existence? Rob -- Latency is more important than throughput. It's that simple. - Linus Torvalds -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kbuild" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html