Re: [PATCH] Remove the new perl dependency from build.

2008-02-16 Thread Sam Ravnborg
Hi Rob. > > Remove perl dependency introduced in 2.6.25-rc1, by shipping > kernel/timeconst.h > with all the "canned" values so perl is only used to regenerate it if that > file is deleted. While I agree that we should keep the dependencies low for building a kernel trying to avoid the perl depen

Re: [PATCH] Remove the new perl dependency from build.

2008-02-15 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Rob Landley wrote: Removed the special case "canned" logic from the perl script (it always requires Math::bigint when it runs now). Moved the list of canned values into kernel/Makefile. (It's already a selection menu in kconfig, so you can't just feed arbitrary values into it anyway. If you a