From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp.kernel.org (aws-us-west-2-korg-mail-1.web.codeaurora.org [10.30.226.201]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 628261094A for ; Mon, 3 Jul 2023 18:56:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id E01A9C433C7; Mon, 3 Jul 2023 18:56:35 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=linuxfoundation.org; s=korg; t=1688410596; bh=etqMsFn4RSS5ug2q9deNG4dwM6wEb7mVP8RpGSIbIXo=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:Date:In-Reply-To:References:From; b=pP5gBNIfM0pl6uDm0A9nQDCCTWkKHnvcNOa5rZxdhtUpN1Xc5FeWqTp9OV1kIt96m 5BDcMvS/5v0vnTo3ZtyIqgMbCs0Xm97vGpREt66ns2P6X4Eod9x+Lf3v1q3VeBCijc nNo5T+nkoS6dM/C7mxbYcLjV0S3qf0dlUEWkYRp8= From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: stable@vger.kernel.org Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman , patches@lists.linux.dev, "Ahmed S. Darwish" , Masahiro Yamada Subject: [PATCH 6.1 10/11] docs: Set minimal gtags / GNU GLOBAL version to 6.6.5 Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2023 20:54:29 +0200 Message-ID: <20230703184519.424897496@linuxfoundation.org> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.41.0 In-Reply-To: <20230703184519.121965745@linuxfoundation.org> References: <20230703184519.121965745@linuxfoundation.org> User-Agent: quilt/0.67 Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: patches@lists.linux.dev List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit From: Ahmed S. Darwish commit b230235b386589d8f0d631b1c77a95ca79bb0732 upstream. 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 Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- Documentation/process/changes.rst | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) --- a/Documentation/process/changes.rst +++ b/Documentation/process/changes.rst @@ -60,6 +60,7 @@ openssl & libcrypto 1.0.0 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 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 ****************