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From: "Robin H. Johnson" <robbat2@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Minimal perl install (stage1/livecd makers might be interested?)
Date: Tue, 07 Jun 2005 19:04:14
Message-Id: 20050607190443.GB4557@curie-int.orbis-terrarum.net
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Minimal perl install (stage1/livecd makers might be interested?) by Michael Cummings
1 On Tue, Jun 07, 2005 at 06:39:28AM -0400, Michael Cummings wrote:
2 > I have a weak unfounded suspicion that it might help with the whole
3 > openssl->perl loop that expresses itself when some folks are building
4 > a stage1.
5 I dug into the openssl source quickly, and found that it uses
6 absolutely no Perl modules, just basic perl itself.
7
8 OpenSSL mainly uses perl to generate the assembly language versions of
9 it's commands, in an almost portable fashion. There are also a few
10 other scripts written in perl, but again, they don't use any modules
11 from my examination.
12
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