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Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2007 10:20:10 -0800
From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
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To: "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>
CC: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
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       Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@o2.pl>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation/Changes -> Documentation/Requirements
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Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>> +
>> +Kernel Compilation Requirements
>> +===============================
>> +
>> +On all systems, minimal requirements (see below for additional notes):
>> +
>> +o  Gnu C                  3.2                     # gcc --version
>> +o  Gnu make               3.79.1                  # make --version
>> +o  binutils               2.12                    # ld -v
>> +o  Gnu bc                 1.06                    # bc -v
> 
> you need bc?  for what?  i just did a defconfig build for x86 with no
> need for bc.
> 

The whole motivation for this was to get a place to document that a 
previous patch uses bc.

>> +o  Perl                   5.6.0(?)                # perl -v
> 
> if you mention perl, you should also mention sed and awk, no?  and
> perhaps suggest running scripts/ver_linux.

Please submit patches.

	-hpa
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