Bug 13267 - [PATCH]Perl is needed to build the kernel but it is not in Documentation/Changes
Summary: [PATCH]Perl is needed to build the kernel but it is not in Documentation/Changes
Status: RESOLVED WILL_NOT_FIX
Alias: None
Product: Documentation
Classification: Unclassified
Component: man-pages (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: P1 normal
Assignee: documentation_man-pages@kernel-bugs.osdl.org
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Reported: 2009-05-07 15:21 UTC by Jose Luis Perez DIez
Modified: 2010-08-30 14:49 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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proposed patch (857 bytes, patch)
2009-05-07 15:22 UTC, Jose Luis Perez DIez 		Details | Diff
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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
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