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| author | Jose Luis Perez Diez <jluis@escomposlinux.org> | 2009-06-17 16:26:30 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2009-06-18 13:03:46 -0700 |
| commit | 082196242e24ff13354a2d376b275e01c08e6799 (patch) | |
| tree | 315cd50243fd2fde116fdabf718c3ca429da287b /Documentation/Changes | |
| parent | 1d965fe0eb435b3f9a10538815f6a68de0aef03c (diff) | |
| download | lwn-082196242e24ff13354a2d376b275e01c08e6799.tar.gz lwn-082196242e24ff13354a2d376b275e01c08e6799.zip | |
Documentation/Changes: perl is needed to build the kernel
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.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: 80-columns, please]
Signed-off-by: Jose Luis Perez Diez <jluis@escomposlinux.org>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/Changes')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/Changes | 7 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/Changes b/Documentation/Changes index 664392481c84..6d0f1efc5bf6 100644 --- a/Documentation/Changes +++ b/Documentation/Changes @@ -72,6 +72,13 @@ 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 ================ |