Gitweb:     http://git.kernel.org/linus/082196242e24ff13354a2d376b275e01c08e6799
Commit:     082196242e24ff13354a2d376b275e01c08e6799
Parent:     1d965fe0eb435b3f9a10538815f6a68de0aef03c
Author:     Jose Luis Perez Diez <jluis@escomposlinux.org>
AuthorDate: Wed Jun 17 16:26:30 2009 -0700
Committer:  Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
CommitDate: Thu Jun 18 13:03:46 2009 -0700

    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>
---
 Documentation/Changes |    7 +++++++
 1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/Changes b/Documentation/Changes
index 6643924..6d0f1ef 100644
--- a/Documentation/Changes
+++ b/Documentation/Changes
@@ -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
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