From 082196242e24ff13354a2d376b275e01c08e6799 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jose Luis Perez Diez Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2009 16:26:30 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] Documentation/Changes: perl is needed to build the kernel 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. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: 80-columns, please] Signed-off-by: Jose Luis Perez Diez Cc: Sam Ravnborg Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- Documentation/Changes | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) diff --git a/Documentation/Changes b/Documentation/Changes index 6643924..6d0f1ef 100644 --- a/Documentation/Changes +++ b/Documentation/Changes @@ -72,6 +72,13 @@ 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 ================ -- 2.7.4