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2.1 KiB
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This package contains the kconfig frontends and parser.
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Kconfig is the configuration language used by the Linux kernel. This package
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is a simple copy of the frontends and the parser found in the Linux kernel
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source tree, with very minor changes to adapt them to being built out of
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the kernel build infrastructure.
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This package does *not* take any change to the parser or frontends. Such
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changes shall be directed directly to the appropriate mailing list, and they
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will eventually find their way is this package at the next sync:
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mailto:linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org
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However, if there is a bug in the packaging infrastructure, patches are
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most welcome, of course! Most notably, because this is my very first
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autostuff-based package, I may have done mistakes here and there...
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As such, there are currently a few known limitations:
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- statically linking is much, much more complex than it should be. I have
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been seemingly able to build part of the frontends with such incantations
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of ./configure and make:
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./configure LDFLAGS=-static nconf_EXTRA_LIBS=-lgpm \
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--disable-shared --enable-static \
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--disable-gconf --disable-qconf
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make LDFLAGS="-all-static -static-libtool-libs"
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- the nconf frontends requires (at least on my machine) to be linked against
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GPM; this is not detected when statically linking (hence the nconf_EXTRA_LIBS
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in the command above).
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- statically linking the graphical frontends (gconf and qconf) is *not*
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supported: I am missing static libs for Qt3Support, so qconf does not link.
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And there is a stupid bug in libtool that prevents properly linking against
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installed static libraries (seemingly fixed in 2.4, but not quite yet, in
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fact...), so gconf does not link. That's why they are disabled above.
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For a list of known issues, please also refer to file docs/known-issues.txt.
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Note that, provided you have the required dependencies, all frontends are
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properly built if you link dynamically. The following just works as expected:
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./configure && make
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Note: if using the git tree, or changing the autostuff sources, you'll first
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have to run:
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autoreconf -fi
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