Re: Nominations for Anthropic’s Claude for Open Source program

On 16/06/26 11:50, Xi Ruoyao wrote:
> On Mon, 2026-06-15 at 20:10 -0300, Adhemerval Zanella Netto wrote:
>> 6. Internal script cleanup
>>
>> This might be a more contentious one, but I think we can reduce our build 
>> dependencies by at least rewriting the Perl script to either awk or Python.
> 
> Hmm, it seems glibc can already build w/o Perl (if you don't care the
> info pages which need Texinfo).  I happened to figure that out after
> forgetting the temporary Perl and Texinfo installations before building
> glibc when I performed a test build of Linux From Scratch manually
> several days ago.

We still install the mtrace, so to use all the glibc features one would
need to install perl. The scripts/test-installation.pl is already gated
through perl existence, but I think it is not a good design if we silent
disable testing due missing tools.

> 
> Also reducing the Perl scripts won't help too much for distros as
> Texinfo is still in Perl and the distros will need the info pages
> anyway.
> 

I think the main gain is for mtrace, the two other scripts
(test-installation.pl, summary.pl) are not essential.  The summary.pl is
only required for manual generation and you put texinfo already brings it
anyway.