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From the install notes, can someone tell me why BoringSSL needs Perl to build?
by psergeant 8y ago
From the install notes, can someone tell me why BoringSSL needs Perl to build?
- chme 8y agoI guess for the same reason OpenSSL needs Perl, to generate some files. IIRC most notable the ASM files are generated via Perl. Update: Here is a link to some Perl BoringSSL stuff: https://boringssl.googlesource.com/boringssl/+/master/crypto/chacha/asm/ https://boringssl.googlesource.com/boringssl/+/master/crypto...
- floatboth 8y agoWorse: why does it need Go?
- mlindner 8y agoPerl is used to generate the final assembly files so they can be adapted between different x86_64 variants/systems/assemblers.