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authorRandy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>2018-06-29 02:39:50 +0300
committerMasahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>2018-07-17 19:18:09 +0300
commit4ab3b80159d4db63b902ef635d4b5e882911b2da (patch)
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kconfig: check for pkg-config on make {menu,n,g,x}config
Each of 'make {menu,n,g,x}config' uses (needs) pkg-config to make sure that other required files are present and to determine build flags settings, but none of these check that pkg-config itself is present. Add a check for all 4 of these targets and update Documentation/process/changes.rst to mention 'pkg-config'. Fixes kernel bugzilla #77511: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=77511 Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Cc: Bjørn Forsman <bjorn.forsman@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
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diff --git a/Documentation/process/changes.rst b/Documentation/process/changes.rst
index ddc029734b25..81930fe75a53 100644
--- a/Documentation/process/changes.rst
+++ b/Documentation/process/changes.rst
@@ -81,6 +81,14 @@ The build system has, as of 4.13, switched to using thin archives (`ar T`)
rather than incremental linking (`ld -r`) for built-in.a intermediate steps.
This requires binutils 2.20 or newer.
+pkg-config
+----------
+
+The build system, as of 4.18, requires pkg-config to check for installed
+kconfig tools and to determine flags settings for use in
+'make {menu,n,g,x}config'. Previously pkg-config was being used but not
+verified or documented.
+
Flex
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