[PATCH]Perl is needed to build the kernel but it is not in Documentation/Changes

[Jose Luis Perez Diez]

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.


Signed-off-by:Jose Luis Perez Diez <jluis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

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

diff --git a/Documentation/Changes b/Documentation/Changes
index b95082b..6a2d53d 100644
--- a/Documentation/Changes
+++ b/Documentation/Changes
@@ -71,6 +71,13 @@ 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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