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* [PATCH]Perl is needed to build the kernel but it is not in Documentation/Changes
@ 2009-05-22  7:05 Jose Luis Perez Diez
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From: Jose Luis Perez Diez @ 2009-05-22  7:05 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-kernel; +Cc: Jose Luis Perez Diez

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@escomposlinux.org>

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 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

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