[PATCH]Remove perl dependency

[Patrick Georgi]

Hi,

attached patch replaces two perl calls with sed, and adds an alternative
for another two (using GNU date, and with limited impact if both
alternatives fail)

Those were the remaining perl calls in our build tree, so remove perl
from our dependency list in README.

Signed-off-by: Patrick Georgi

[Stefan Reinauer]

On 2/10/10 1:24 PM, Patrick Georgi wrote:
> Hi,
>
> attached patch replaces two perl calls with sed, and adds an alternative
> for another two (using GNU date, and with limited impact if both
> alternatives fail)
>
> Those were the remaining perl calls in our build tree, so remove perl
> from our dependency list in README.
>
> Signed-off-by: Patrick Georgi

Acked-by: Stefan Reinauer

[Uwe Hermann]

On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 01:24:03PM +0100, Patrick Georgi wrote:
> Hi,
>
> attached patch replaces two perl calls with sed, and adds an alternative
> for another two (using GNU date, and with limited impact if both
> alternatives fail)

Looks great, but why not remove the perl line completely and use date only?
I think there's no benefit of keeping the perl alternative, correct?

Uwe.

[Patrick Georgi]

Am 10.02.2010 19:06, schrieb Uwe Hermann:
> Looks great, but why not remove the perl line completely and use date only?
> I think there's no benefit of keeping the perl alternative, correct?

This way, it still works with non-GNU date, if perl is installed.
My main point of removing perl is to support windows better (smaller
toolchain required), and there, date is GNU.
On most unix-alikes, either GNU date or perl are around.

Patrick