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

["H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>]

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