Re: Faster depend written in Perl
G Sumner Hayes (sumner+@cmu.edu)
Sat, 27 Jul 1996 02:06:41 -0400 (EDT)
quinlan@charcoal.eg.bucknell.edu (Daniel Quinlan) writes:
>
> Defaulting to the perl version is probably better since most people
> don't have mawk.
The traditional answer to this has been that not all Linux boxes have
perl, but all have awk. So we can't require perl to build the kernel.
I don't know how valid this argument is these days, though.
TTFN,
Sumner