Bug 60575

Summary: [TRIVIAL]Please mention build dependency on "bc"
Product: Documentation Reporter: Christoph Biedl (bugzilla.kernel.bpeb)
Component: man-pagesAssignee: Alan (alan)
Status: RESOLVED CODE_FIX    
Severity: low CC: alan, hpa, k.a.avanish, martink
Priority: P1    
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
Kernel Version: Subsystem:
Regression: Yes Bisected commit-id:
Attachments: Is the new version satisfactory?

Description Christoph Biedl 2013-07-18 06:12:10 UTC 
Hi there,

test-compiling 3.10 resulted in an error in my build chroot. The
easily identifiable reason was that a while ago, an additional build
dependency on the "bc" was added. This obviously happened in

commit 70730bca1331fc50c3caacaea00439de1325bd6e
Author: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Date:   Thu Feb 14 15:13:55 2013 -0800

    kernel: Replace timeconst.pl with a bc script

However, the "Kernel compilation" section Documentation/Changes was
not updated accordingly and, I am asking you to change this.

In my opinion, the documentation should mention that. At least on
Debian, the bc package is not necessarily installed - unlike for
example the coreutils that are also needed to build the kernel without
being mentioned in that document.

Cheers,
    Christoph
Comment 1 Martin Kepplinger 2016-03-21 12:13:58 UTC 
can be close, as is mentioned in Changes file.
Comment 2 Avanish.K.A 2019-01-26 04:58:48 UTC 
Created attachment 280783 [details]
Is the new version satisfactory?
Comment 3 Christoph Biedl 2019-01-26 15:42:21 UTC 
Issue was resolved in

commit 1c3a54e257f764f1564abba142597d472fba49c8
Author: Benoit Lemarchand <benoit.lemarchand@gmail.com>
Date:   Tue Sep 29 18:57:11 2015 +0200

Closing therefore.