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Bug 60575 bugzilla-daemon-590EEB7GvNiWaY/[email protected] 1 participant 3 messages Jul 18, 2013 – Nov 20, 2013 1 message not in the archive Man-pages: manual pages for Linux -- Sections 2, 3, 4, 5, and 7

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https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=60575

Bug ID: 60575
Summary: Please mention build dependency on "bc"
Product: Documentation
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
Status: NEW
Severity: low
Priority: P1
Component: man-pages
Assignee: documentation_man-pages-ztI5WcYan/[email protected]
Reporter: bugzilla.kernel.bpeb-o6iJJGtClBpGEOBiBlW9YYQuADTiUCJX@public.gmane.org
CC: [email protected]
Regression: Yes

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 <[email protected]>
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

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[Bug 60575] [TRIVIAL]Please mention build dependency on "bc"

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[Bug 60575] [TRIVIAL]Please mention build dependency on "bc"

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