On Mon, 04 Jun 2012 22:30:29 +0100 Jeremy Huntwork <jhuntw...@lightcubesolutions.com> wrote:
> 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. So maybe it should just be installed in Chapter 5 and the Chapter 6 page could move to BLFS? Andy -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
