----- Mail original ----- > De: "Jim Meyering" <[email protected]> > À: "Stefano Lattarini" <[email protected]> > Cc: "Pádraig Brady" <[email protected]>, "Mike Frysinger" > <[email protected]>, [email protected], > [email protected] > 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. Gilles
