From patchwork Mon May 15 17:32:17 2023 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Patchwork-Submitter: "Ahmed S. Darwish" X-Patchwork-Id: 13241901 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 31121C77B7D for ; Mon, 15 May 2023 17:35:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S243327AbjEORfh (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 May 2023 13:35:37 -0400 Received: from lindbergh.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.19]:54022 "EHLO lindbergh.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S243342AbjEORfN (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 May 2023 13:35:13 -0400 Received: from galois.linutronix.de (Galois.linutronix.de [193.142.43.55]) by lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4ACB41560C; Mon, 15 May 2023 10:33:08 -0700 (PDT) From: "Ahmed S. Darwish" DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=linutronix.de; s=2020; t=1684171987; h=from:from:reply-to:subject:subject:date:date:message-id:message-id: to:to:cc:cc:mime-version:mime-version: content-transfer-encoding:content-transfer-encoding: in-reply-to:in-reply-to:references:references; bh=rYa4NIoRwK77mO2jcboViBt+jqXZhNpE7ckEwsEc9Bc=; b=Vqt01Sx+MgrLW7k3LIc6jc5YvFkISrk/2rBg9ogFTG/hd4A2PO6SBYi9Gx8TmjTVljEH5i 4n3KrEu5+L+S1YVDVfg4lp+d5XlSvphHZPOxKMuc6ecc7w2qvHOPWHRaU68qcskZqTIYlD FpKwFHSFm9RGvaWLxcCvlKPZE0X3DZaiYqvepnkCEDxoLuZrCQaOv0Abngl+/xt9oKGKaP cgv2ND0hPoHl2OHx5NV5ITw3eYSSYKoeQ+i+dX4fvBbc2X9ikpZa/Dq6SM3LE9MSDJquQx Wa8ihw+DQ2GSTxsFVm9Pb8SCNhb14nA2/sxRx/jKpKJLxUSGEnI00HmMyAWVkQ== DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=ed25519-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=linutronix.de; s=2020e; t=1684171987; h=from:from:reply-to:subject:subject:date:date:message-id:message-id: to:to:cc:cc:mime-version:mime-version: content-transfer-encoding:content-transfer-encoding: in-reply-to:in-reply-to:references:references; bh=rYa4NIoRwK77mO2jcboViBt+jqXZhNpE7ckEwsEc9Bc=; b=YPomW4tfQ86omjkiMiVy0O3HDWpJ1KA3stQ3WtxlxAtCtB/akzOUPTCE92zKHc1XEp04ba bnaeCxQVBOuOX3CQ== To: Masahiro Yamada , Nathan Chancellor , Nick Desaulniers , Nicolas Schier , Jonathan Corbet Cc: Thomas Gleixner , linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, LKML , "Ahmed S. Darwish" Subject: [PATCH v3 2/2] docs: Set minimal gtags / GNU GLOBAL version to 6.6.5 Date: Mon, 15 May 2023 19:32:17 +0200 Message-Id: <20230515173217.64864-3-darwi@linutronix.de> In-Reply-To: <20230515173217.64864-1-darwi@linutronix.de> References: <20230509012616.81579-1-darwi@linutronix.de> <20230515173217.64864-1-darwi@linutronix.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org Kernel build now uses the gtags "-C (--directory)" option, available since GNU GLOBAL v6.6.5. Update the documentation accordingly. Signed-off-by: Ahmed S. Darwish Cc: Link: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-global/2020-09/msg00000.html --- Documentation/process/changes.rst | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) diff --git a/Documentation/process/changes.rst b/Documentation/process/changes.rst index ef540865ad22..a9ef00509c9b 100644 --- a/Documentation/process/changes.rst +++ b/Documentation/process/changes.rst @@ -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) +----------------------------- + +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 ****************