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.

[[email protected]: 80-columns, please]
Signed-off-by: Jose Luis Perez Diez <[email protected]>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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Jose Luis Perez Diez 2009-06-17 16:26:30 -07:00 • committed by Linus Torvalds
commit 082196242e

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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
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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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