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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/process/changes.rst | 8 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | scripts/kconfig/Makefile | 1 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | scripts/kconfig/check-pkgconfig.sh | 8 |
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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 ---- diff --git a/scripts/kconfig/Makefile b/scripts/kconfig/Makefile index a3ac2c91331c..49edb9cc9410 100644 --- a/scripts/kconfig/Makefile +++ b/scripts/kconfig/Makefile @@ -215,6 +215,7 @@ $(obj)/zconf.tab.o: $(obj)/zconf.lex.c # check if necessary packages are available, and configure build flags define filechk_conf_cfg + $(CONFIG_SHELL) $(srctree)/scripts/kconfig/check-pkgconfig.sh; \ $(CONFIG_SHELL) $< endef diff --git a/scripts/kconfig/check-pkgconfig.sh b/scripts/kconfig/check-pkgconfig.sh new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..7a1c40bfb58c --- /dev/null +++ b/scripts/kconfig/check-pkgconfig.sh @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +#!/bin/sh +# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 +# Check for pkg-config presence + +if [ -z $(command -v pkg-config) ]; then + echo "'make *config' requires 'pkg-config'. Please install it." 1>&2 + exit 1 +fi |