Bug 13267

Summary: [PATCH]Perl is needed to build the kernel but it is not in Documentation/Changes
Product: Documentation Reporter: Jose Luis Perez DIez (jluis)
Component: man-pagesAssignee: documentation_man-pages (documentation_man-pages)
Status: RESOLVED WILL_NOT_FIX    
Severity: normal CC: alan, jluis, mtk.manpages, randy.dunlap
Priority: P1    
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
Kernel Version: Subsystem:
Regression: No Bisected commit-id:
Attachments: proposed patch

Description Jose Luis Perez DIez 2009-05-07 15:21:50 UTC 
Perl is used on the kernel Makefile to generate documentation, firmwares in c source form, sources, graphs, and some headers.

Documentation/Changes does not list Perl 5 and the following modules: Getopt::Long, Getopt::Std, File::Basename, and  File::Find.

I noticed this when building the kernel on a openmoko GTA02 using distcc for some bechmarchs
Comment 1 Jose Luis Perez DIez 2009-05-07 15:22:42 UTC 
Created attachment 21258 [details]
proposed patch
Comment 2 Alan 2009-05-21 17:11:01 UTC 
Please send the patch to linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org with a Signed-off-by:  line as per Documentation/Submitting Patches
Comment 3 Michael Kerrisk 2010-08-30 14:49:45 UTC 
This isn't a man-pages bug... closing