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Date: Fri, 22 May 2009 09:05:11 +0200 From: Jose Luis Perez Diez <jluis@...omposlinux.org> To: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Cc: Jose Luis Perez Diez <jluis@...omposlinux.org> Subject: [PATCH]Perl is needed to build the kernel but it is not in Documentation/Changes Perl is used on the kernel Makefile to generate documentation, firmwares in c source form, sources, graphs, and some headers and this fact is undocumented. Signed-off-by:Jose Luis Perez Diez <jluis@...omposlinux.org> --- Documentation/Changes | 7 +++++++ 1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/Changes b/Documentation/Changes index b95082b..6a2d53d 100644 --- a/Documentation/Changes +++ b/Documentation/Changes @@ -71,6 +71,13 @@ assembling the 16-bit boot code, removing the need for as86 to compile your kernel. This change does, however, mean that you need a recent release of binutils. +Perl +---- + +You will need perl 5 and the following modules: Getopt::Long, Getopt::Std, File::Basename, and File::Find to build the kernel. + + + System utilities ================ -- 1.5.6.5 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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