From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752643Ab3B0F55 (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Feb 2013 00:57:57 -0500 Received: from mail-oa0-f52.google.com ([209.85.219.52]:64464 "EHLO mail-oa0-f52.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752502Ab3B0F5z (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Feb 2013 00:57:55 -0500 Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2013 21:57:52 -0800 (PST) Cc: Al Viro , Andrew Morton , Arnd Bergmann , Cyrill Gorcunov , Dave Jones , David Howells , David Howells , Greg Kroah-Hartman , "H. Peter Anvin" , "H. Peter Anvin" , Ingo Molnar , Josh Boyer , Michal Marek , "Paul E. McKenney" , Peter Zijlstra , Rusty Russell , Sam Ravnborg , Thomas Gleixner , Vince Weaver , x86@kernel.org, Zheng Yan To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Message-Id: <1361944667.957820@landley.net> From: Rob Landley Subject: [PATCH 0/3] build linux-next without perl Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Before 2.6.25 building Linux never required perl. This patch series removes the requirement from basic kernel builds (tested on i686, x86_64, arm, mips, powerpc, sparc, sh4, and m68k). Now updated to 3.8-rc1. Note, this removes perl from the _build_ environment, not from the _development_ environment. This is approximately the same logic behind "make menuconfig" requiring curses but "make oldconfig" not requiring curses. Including zconf.lex.c_shipped in kconfig and then requiring perl makes no sense. Earlier versions have been posted to the mailing list over, and over, and over: http://lkml.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1212.2/00734.html http://lkml.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1201.2/02849.html http://lkml.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0912.1/00093.htm http://lkml.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0909.2/01661.html http://lkml.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0901.0/00772.html http://lkml.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0901.0/00148.html http://lkml.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0802.1/4393.html They've also been posted individually rather than as a series: http://lkml.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1101.2/00650.html http://lkml.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1101.2/00115.html Mentioned during related perl removal patches from other people: http://lkml.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0910.0/02145.html And so on. So here it is again. The most up to date version of these patches is always available at http://landley.net/hg/aboriginal in the sources/patches directory. Specifically, check: http://landley.net/hg/aboriginal/log/tip/sources/patches/linux-noperl-capflags.patch http://landley.net/hg/aboriginal/log/tip/sources/patches/linux-noperl-headers.patch http://landley.net/hg/aboriginal/log/tip/sources/patches/linux-noperl-timeconst.patch (Earlier versions had the kernel version number in the filename, so you'll have to dig in the repository a bit to find them if you want the version for an older kernel.) Mostly people just copy the patches into their local projects (ala https://github.com/rofl0r/sabotage/tree/master/KEEP ) but I'm reposting them to linux-kernel after Gentoo considered using these patches, but didn't because they weren't upstream: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=421483 Here's either Peter Anvin or Greg KH (not quite sure which) suggesting removing timeconst.pl: http://lkml.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1302.3/00506.html Here's Sam Ravnborg acking the headers_install patch: https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/2/15/121 Here's Michal Marek reviewing the headers_install patch (his suggestions are incorporated in this version): http://lkml.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1302.3/00078.html Here's somebody else reminding me to repost the patch series: http://lkml.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1302.0/00607.html Plus various people keep poking me and asking about it. I'll see who I can remember to ping. (Sorry for the delay. Balsa is such a horrible email client I wrote a python script to send this email. Took a while to debug. Probably still likely to screw something up...)