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authorDaniel Micay <danielmicay@gmail.com>2020-05-08 18:32:47 -0400
committerDaniel Micay <danielmicay@gmail.com>2020-05-08 18:32:47 -0400
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self-updating variant avoids dealing with out-of-date distribution packages and
depends on GPG to verify updates.</p>
+ <p>Additional Linux kernel build dependencies not provided by the source tree:</p>
+
+ <ul>
+ <li>make</li>
+ <li>gcc (for the host, not the target)</li>
+ <li>binutils (for the host, not the target)</li>
+ <li>which</li>
+ <li>bc</li>
+ <li>cmp (diffutils)</li>
+ </ul>
+
+ <p>The dependency on the host gcc and binutils for building utilities during the build
+ process is being phased out by using the same LLVM toolchain as building and linking
+ for the target.</p>
+
<ul>
<li>x86_64 Linux build environment (macOS is not supported, unlike AOSP which
partially supports it)</li>