https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=60575 Bug ID: 60575 Summary: Please mention build dependency on "bc" Product: Documentation Version: unspecified Hardware: All OS: Linux Status: NEW Severity: low Priority: P1 Component: man-pages Assignee: documentation_man-pages@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Reporter: bugzilla.kernel.bpeb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx CC: hpa@xxxxxxxxx Regression: Yes Hi there, test-compiling 3.10 resulted in an error in my build chroot. The easily identifiable reason was that a while ago, an additional build dependency on the "bc" was added. This obviously happened in commit 70730bca1331fc50c3caacaea00439de1325bd6e Author: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu Feb 14 15:13:55 2013 -0800 kernel: Replace timeconst.pl with a bc script However, the "Kernel compilation" section Documentation/Changes was not updated accordingly and, I am asking you to change this. In my opinion, the documentation should mention that. At least on Debian, the bc package is not necessarily installed - unlike for example the coreutils that are also needed to build the kernel without being mentioned in that document. Cheers, Christoph -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching the assignee of the bug. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
