Re: [PATCH 1/3] Replace kernel/timeconst.pl with kernel/timeconst.sh

[H. Peter Anvin]

On 12/09/2009 05:50 PM, Rob Landley wrote:
> On Wednesday 09 December 2009 17:45:21 H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>> On 12/09/2009 03:40 PM, Rob Landley wrote:
>>> This is why reducing the perl version to just the precomputed constants
>>> wouldn't work either.  (They're there so that you only need to install a
>>> random cpan library when surprised by a build break on non-x86 machines.)
>>
>> It's not "a random CPAN library" - it's a core module.
> 
> Then why cache large quantities of its output and test for its existence?
> 

To support archaic Perl versions and Perl binaries without libraries.

	-hpa

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