RE: Perl in the toolchain

From: Ed Vance (EdV@macrolink.com)
Date: Fri Jan 31 2003 - 15:13:40 EST


On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 11:49 AM, Jeff Garzik wrote:
>
> On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 01:41:26PM -0600, Kai Germaschewski wrote:
> > Generally, we've been trying to not make perl a prequisite
> > for the kernel build, and I'd like to keep it that way.
> > Except for some arch specific
>
> That's pretty much out the window when klibc gets merged, so perl will
> indeed be a build requirement for all platforms...
>

The solution is obvious:
Write a perl interpreter in Python!
of course, to avoid merely moving the problem, Python then would be
implemented in a bash script ...
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