Commit b230235b authored by Ahmed S. Darwish's avatar Ahmed S. Darwish Committed by Masahiro Yamada
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docs: Set minimal gtags / GNU GLOBAL version to 6.6.5 



Kernel build now uses the gtags "-C (--directory)" option, available
since GNU GLOBAL v6.6.5.  Update the documentation accordingly.

Signed-off-by: default avatarAhmed S. Darwish <darwi@linutronix.de>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Link: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-global/2020-09/msg00000.html


Signed-off-by: default avatarMasahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
parent e1b37563

Documentation/process/changes.rst

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@@ -60,6 +60,7 @@ openssl & libcrypto 1.0.0 openssl version 
bc                     1.06.95          bc --version

Sphinx\ [#f1]_         1.7              sphinx-build --version

cpio                   any              cpio --version

gtags (optional)       6.6.5            gtags --version

====================== ===============  ========================================



.. [#f1] Sphinx is needed only to build the Kernel documentation
@@ -174,6 +175,12 @@ You will need openssl to build kernels 3.7 and higher if module signing is 
enabled.  You will also need openssl development packages to build kernels 4.3

and higher.



gtags / GNU GLOBAL (optional)

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The kernel build requires GNU GLOBAL version 6.6.5 or later to generate

tag files through ``make gtags``.  This is due to its use of the gtags

``-C (--directory)`` flag.



System utilities

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