On 6/4/12 5:20 PM, DJ Lucas wrote: > On 06/04/2012 02:35 PM, Jeremy Huntwork wrote: >> (perl is another one I'd love to see removed, but I'm not going to >> seriously recommend that one :) ) > > Just curiosity, what are the necessary steps? I was pretty sure that > something obscure in either gcc or glibc builds required it, but I am > all too aware of how well fuzzy memories have served me recently! :-)
The current headers-install command in the kernel tree is a perl script, but there exists a patch to replace it with a very simple shell script (and I believe the intent is to submit it upstream). Glibc also requires perl for some part of its build system, but I can't recall where offhand exactly and I don't have any recent build logs available. But I doubt it's a very big deal to remove that dependency as well. I see perl as one of those things that's necessary to have available for any serious distro, but not necessarily something I need or want installed on every machine. JH -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
