Romcc Ramblings...

ron minnich rminnich at lanl.gov
Fri Dec 5 13:15:00 CET 2003


On Fri, 5 Dec 2003, Steve Gehlbach wrote:

> ron minnich wrote:
> >  I just don't want to see us
> > return to the days of tons of perl code in the Makefiles. We made 
> > deliberate changes to the new config tool to eliminate the need for that 
> > stuff. When I first cut over to the new config tool I was quite surprised 
> > at the difference in build time for linuxbios -- all those Perl 
> > invocations are expensive.
> 
> You realize you are talking about God's Language :-)).  Anyway, I think 
> as many sins could just as easily be committed in bash, I wouldn't 
> necessarily hang it all on Perl.  IMHO.

yes, we want to keep the bash invocations to a minimum too.

ron




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