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

[Brian Jackson]

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.

--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 synonym for outdated), Mandr* (looked at their RPM spec on CVS) and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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