g....@free.fr wrote: > ----- Mail original ----- >> De: "Jim Meyering" <j...@meyering.net> >> À: "Stefano Lattarini" <stefano.lattar...@gmail.com> >> Cc: "Pádraig Brady" <p...@draigbrady.com>, "Mike Frysinger" >> <vap...@gentoo.org>, coreut...@gnu.org, >> 12...@debbugs.gnu.org >> Envoyé: Mercredi 24 Octobre 2012 15:07:18 >> Objet: bug#12715: [PATCH] build: do not require help2man at >> build-from-tarball time >> >> Stefano Lattarini wrote: >> > Here is the updated patch. Sorry for the noise, >> ... >> > Subject: [PATCH] build: graceful degradation in man pages >> > generation if perl >> > is lacking >> >> Does anyone know of a well-known environment/distro in which >> coreutils is built without perl? I.e., if virtually no one >> builds coreutils without perl, then any attempt to coddle those >> users is wasted complexity. >> > Speaking for what I know, this is not an issue with 'linux from > scratch' based systems. > - perl is an host requirement (coreutils is build a first time on > toolchain stage), > - perl is build on toolchain stage before final coreutils is build. > > Any toolchain that really cross-compile often avoid perl as > notoriously hard to cross-compile. > Often busybox is used instead of coreutils. Openwrt for example does that. > Openwrt could optionally build coreutils. The build script use 8.16 > and patch to not build the doc.
Nice. That's reassuring. Thanks for the info.
