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Re: [PATCH] better header cache versioning



Re: David Laight 2007-04-05 <20070405094029.GO14658@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 08:31:11AM +0200, Christian Ebert wrote:
> > * Brendan Cully on Wednesday, April 04, 2007 at 15:23:02 -0700:
> > > Here's a patch that attempts to version the header cache more
> > > accurately. It uses a little script to extract the type definitions
> > > for the structures hcache saves, pipes them through an MD5, and uses
> > > an unsigned long's worth of the result as a CRC.
> > > 
> > > Comments?
> > 
> > Is it save to assume that Python is present on every system?
> 
> No, it almost certainly won't be installed on (say) a NetBSD system.
> (And neither will perl)

It is only used at build time. (And perl has been required for
running smime_keys for a long time.)

Christoph
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