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 synonym for outdated), Mandr* (looked at their RPM |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