Re: [PATCH] Document awk requirements

[Masami Hiramatsu]

Luca Tettamanti wrote:
> Hello,
> current -git kernel fails to build with this error message:
> 
>   GEN     arch/x86/lib/inat-tables.c
>   Error: Your awk doesn't support charactor-class.
> 
> mawk is installed; it appears that gawk is required, so:
> ---
> Gnu awk is required for generating arch/x86/lib/inat-tables.c
> 
> Signed-off-by: Luca Tettamanti <kronos.it@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---

Thank you for adding that :-)

Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@xxxxxxxxxx>


> 
>  Documentation/Changes |    1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/Changes b/Documentation/Changes
> index 6d0f1ef..53fd218 100644
> --- a/Documentation/Changes
> +++ b/Documentation/Changes
> @@ -49,6 +49,7 @@ o  oprofile               0.9                     # oprofiled --version
>  o  udev                   081                     # udevinfo -V
>  o  grub                   0.93                    # grub --version
>  o  mcelog		  0.6
> +o  Gnu awk                3.1.5                   # awk --version   
>  
>  Kernel compilation
>  ==================

-- 
Masami Hiramatsu

Software Engineer
Hitachi Computer Products (America), Inc.
Software Solutions Division

e-mail: mhiramat@xxxxxxxxxx

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