[coreboot] [PATCH]Remove perl dependency

Patrick Georgi patrick at georgi-clan.de
Wed Feb 10 19:13:01 CET 2010


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




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