[PATCH rsa/stdint_noheaders] Cleanup: Add #include <stdint.h> for uint[32|64]_t usage (except installed headers)
Roland McGrath
roland@hack.frob.com
Thu Jun 20 23:09:00 GMT 2013
Perl is not required to build libc from a release distribution (as Autoconf
is not). Since we make our releases directly from git with 'git archive',
we must commit all generated files whose regeneration requires a tool that
only maintainers are required to have. This would not be an issue if you
rewrote the generator program in AWK (requiring extensions available only
in gawk-3.1.2 and later is acceptable), for example.
That issue aside, if the generation is unusually slow (e.g. takes longer
than one of the large source files takes to compile) then that would be
another, more fuzzy reason not to require that everyone's build repeat the
generation work.
Thanks,
Roland
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