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Subject: Documentation/Changes: perl is needed to build the kernel
From: Jose Luis Perez Diez <jluis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
Documentation/Changes | 7 +++++++
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
diff -puN Documentation/Changes~documentation-changes-perl-is-needed-to-build-the-kernel Documentation/Changes
--- a/Documentation/Changes~documentation-changes-perl-is-needed-to-build-the-kernel
+++ a/Documentation/Changes
@@ -71,6 +71,13 @@ assembling the 16-bit boot code, removin
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
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Patches currently in -mm which might be from jluis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are
documentation-changes-perl-is-needed-to-build-the-kernel.patch
documentation-changes-perl-is-needed-to-build-the-kernel-fix.patch
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