From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753644AbZEVHFc (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 May 2009 03:05:32 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751524AbZEVHFZ (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 May 2009 03:05:25 -0400 Received: from mail-ew0-f176.google.com ([209.85.219.176]:43248 "EHLO mail-ew0-f176.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751483AbZEVHFY (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 May 2009 03:05:24 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=sender:from:to:subject:date:user-agent:x-face:cc:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :message-id; b=E6Wk9TI5ay/uOynqOMmu/QgM2X6etA+uJ/+KsyiFHiK0SQ/5i0hkSsK6gJPI12gvC3 oXD9bUYGV2U/PKG+5f9UUwYkzAQsOPCvLhbtDOo4qhNevAOCsn/iwR53n/MAXkzAdcnz mdMwTHLWeAL1TezUzYwTVKrTzsC0TFAU8qCPk= From: Jose Luis Perez Diez To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: [PATCH]Perl is needed to build the kernel but it is not in Documentation/Changes Date: Fri, 22 May 2009 09:05:11 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.9 X-Face: "2E*FU(q5Y=y<[Q`"$lOX>/8Z*3f.6.tS{0@FUR%P:0AEI1(-e%(?-]KN8p!!j_26I5;)=?utf-8?q?=3F=0A=09n=26+=3D=5ElyOCVxbpJ0?=(;u*$A}%Zw([9#8=IhSg0_o/{4L6tT!*=Mx Cc: Jose Luis Perez Diez MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200905220905.11270.jluis@escomposlinux.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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 --- 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