Commit 08219624 authored Jun 17, 2009 by Jose Luis Perez Diez Committed by Linus Torvalds Jun 18, 2009

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 <jluis@escomposlinux.org>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

parent 1d965fe0

Documentation/Changes

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		@@ -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
		================