--- Brian Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Ren� Rh�aume wrote:
> > It is a shame to see Perl tbz2 package is two and
> an half times bigger
> > than Python one, yet we use Perl almost only for
> autotools on embedded
> > Gentoo. I did some research on the Web about
> reducing Perl size.
>
> If you are putting autotools on an embedded system,
> you are doing something wrong.
>
Weather putting autotools on an embedded system is
wrong or not... you can build a very small version of
Perl if you are using uClibc. Then just control which
perl packages you emerge.
Q
> --Iggy
>
> >
> > I found out at least three distributions shipping
> a binary package
> > named "perl-base": Debian (I check the testing
> branch, as stable is
> > synonym for outdated), Mandr* (looked at their RPM
> spec on CVS) and
> > Connectiva (before Mandr*soft bought, checked from
> their 5.8.3-62256cl
> > SRPM), extracted the associated file list for
> each, adapted them,
> > merged them and replaced hard-coded with
> variables. The resulting file
> > looks like a snippet from a shell script, that
> should play well with
> > the current ebuild. I did not produce a modified
> ebuild yet. Whether I
> > or someone else prepared a testing ebuild is not
> important. I want to
> > test if the selected subset of files is good
> enough for autotools.
> >
> > For highly embedded environments, there is also
> the possibility to
> > ship miniperl, the tiny Perl used by the Perl
> build system itself. I
> > found this in the Perl spec file from Connectiva,
> after make install:
> >
> > # Now we can use the miniperl
> > install -m 755 miniperl
> %{buildroot}%{_bindir}/miniperl
> >
> > Translated to: cd ${S};dobin miniperl
> >
> >
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