The discussion is about the feasibility of removing perl from *LFS* - all of the packages you listed except GCC are outside of LFS
Sent from my iThingy On 6/06/2012, at 8:10, g....@free.fr wrote: > > > ----- Mail original ----- >> De: "Jeremy Huntwork" <jhuntw...@lightcubesolutions.com> >> À: "LFS Developers Mailinglist" <lfs-dev@linuxfromscratch.org> >> Envoyé: Mardi 5 Juin 2012 16:09:51 >> Objet: Re: [lfs-dev] popt in the book? >> >> On 6/5/12 2:05 AM, g....@free.fr wrote: >>> This make me smile a lot. >>> There is much more dependencies in perl than just glibc and linux >>> packages. >>> Check a bit your log with >>> grep -rl 'perl '<logdirectory> >> >> Getting perl hits in your logs does not always equate to actual >> dependency. Configure scripts may check for perl even if it's not >> required and packages may at times install supplementary perl scripts >> that aren't typically used at runtime. Few packages actually require >> perl to be present to build and/or run. >> >> JH >> -- > > I looked only at the build side with my compilation logs looking for 'perl ' > and '\.pl '. > Not all my compiled packages are in verbose mode, so I may miss some call and > every anonymous perl script that is not using a .pl name. This was observed > with the usage I made from those package, often with more --disable options > than LFS/BLFS. > > bind-9.8.3 use a perl script > fcron-3.0.6 use a perl script > gcc use texi2pod.pl > krb-1.9.3 has many perl one-liner call, > libpcap-2.22 has one perl one-liner call > linux-atm-2.5.2 call a perl script > ntp-4.5.3 call a perl script > openssl-1.0.1c produce the asm from a perl script and Configure is a perl > script > openswan-2.6.38 use a perl script > syslinux-4.05 need perl to create some code > wget-1.13.4 use texi2pod.pl > > I skipped here all perl related packages > > Good luck to compile without perl. > > Gilles > -- > http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev > FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ > Unsubscribe: See the above information page -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
