xorg-server portability + de-perl changes

Alan Coopersmith alan.coopersmith at sun.com
Thu Aug 16 10:15:47 PDT 2007


Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
> patch-ag and modeline2.awk replace the Perl script in hw/xfree86/common
> with a simpler AWK script. This removes the last major dependency on
> Perl in modular Xorg. The script should work fine with any nawk, tested
> are one-true-awk and gawk.

Why is removing perl usage a useful thing to do?   (Seriously - is there
some system out there for which perl is the only obstacle to building
modular?  Does removing perl make builds go faster?)

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	-Alan Coopersmith-           alan.coopersmith at sun.com
	 Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering



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