Re: [gentoo-embedded] Making a stripped-down version of Perl

[Ned Ludd]

On Wed, 2005-06-01 at 07:49 -0700, Quentin Arce wrote:
>
> --- Brian Jackson <iggy@g.o> wrote:
>
> > René Rhéaume 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.

I think the the point iggy was making is that perl really has no place 
on the target device. I've gone down this road myself and have watched 
many others struggle with the limitations minperl/microperl.

You really are better off to assess your target device goals. If there
is some task which your used to but are only aware of said functionality
existing in perl try asking around.. Maybe somebody else already ported
the idea over to ash or c or might be willing to.

Still probably no harm in having a minimalistic perl around in the 
portage tree.  We just cant promote such ideas and being any part of 
proper embedded solutions due to file size and memory/cpu consumption
that goes along with using perl itself.

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Ned Ludd <solar@g.o>

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