From: bbahnsen <bbahnsen@6f19259b-4bc3-4df7-8a09-765794883524>
Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2006 22:08:33 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: A few notes on Linux builds.
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A few notes on Linux builds.

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diff --git a/ReleaseNotes.txt b/ReleaseNotes.txt
index 4f8c26a5e6..0efa80764a 100644
--- a/ReleaseNotes.txt
+++ b/ReleaseNotes.txt
@@ -192,6 +192,21 @@ many other POSIX-compliant host operating environments. To compile the custom
 gcc tool chain, you need the following tools on your host computer: bash, gcc, 
 gmake, curl (or wget).
 
+Only the MdePkg and EdkModulePkg are currently supported by gcc builds. Other
+builds, such as the EdkNt32Pkg, will not compile with gcc.
+
+----------------------------
+A Word on compiling on Linux
+----------------------------
+
+In order to compile on Linux, you will need to have the e2fsprogs-dev package
+installed.  Check your distribution for the rpm, deb or other package format.
+This package contains the uuid library and header that are used by some of the
+host tools.
+
+If you are running on x86_64 Linux, then you should install a 64 bit version of
+the Java JDK. The version that was used was jdk-1_5_0_07-linux-amd64-rpm.bin.
+It may be downloaded from sun.com.
 
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