linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Documentation/Changes -> Documentation/Requirements

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Message-ID: <4750545A.2030605@zytor.com>
Date:	Fri, 30 Nov 2007 10:20:10 -0800
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	"Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@...shcourse.ca>
CC:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@...pl>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation/Changes -> Documentation/Requirements

Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>> +
>> +Kernel Compilation Requirements
>> +===============================
>> +
>> +On all systems, minimal requirements (see below for additional notes):
>> +
>> +o  Gnu C                  3.2                     # gcc --version
>> +o  Gnu make               3.79.1                  # make --version
>> +o  binutils               2.12                    # ld -v
>> +o  Gnu bc                 1.06                    # bc -v
> 
> you need bc?  for what?  i just did a defconfig build for x86 with no
> need for bc.
> 

The whole motivation for this was to get a place to document that a 
previous patch uses bc.

>> +o  Perl                   5.6.0(?)                # perl -v
> 
> if you mention perl, you should also mention sed and awk, no?  and
> perhaps suggest running scripts/ver_linux.

Please submit patches.

	-hpa
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