1This package contains the kconfig frontends and parser. 2 3Kconfig is the configuration language used by the Linux kernel. This package 4is a simple copy of the frontends and the parser found in the Linux kernel 5source tree, with very minor changes to adapt them to being built out of 6the kernel build infrastructure. 7 8This package does *not* take any change to the parser or frontends. Such 9changes shall be directed directly to the appropriate mailing list, and they 10will eventually find their way is this package at the next sync: 11 mailto:[email protected] 12 13However, if there is a bug in the packaging infrastructure, patches are 14most welcome, of course! Most notably, because this is my very first 15autostuff-based package, I may have done mistakes here and there... 16 17As such, there are currently a few known limitations: 18 19- statically linking is much, much more complex than it should be. I have 20 been seemingly able to build part of the frontends with such incantations 21 of ./configure and make: 22 ./configure LDFLAGS=-static nconf_EXTRA_LIBS=-lgpm \ 23 --disable-shared --enable-static \ 24 --disable-gconf --disable-qconf 25 make LDFLAGS="-all-static -static-libtool-libs" 26 27- the nconf frontends requires (at least on my machine) to be linked against 28 GPM; this is not detected when statically linking (hence the nconf_EXTRA_LIBS 29 in the command above). 30 31- statically linking the graphical frontends (gconf and qconf) is *not* 32 supported: I am missing static libs for Qt3Support, so qconf does not link. 33 And there is a stupid bug in libtool that prevents properly linking against 34 installed static libraries (seemingly fixed in 2.4, but not quite yet, in 35 fact...), so gconf does not link. That's why they are disabled above. 36 37For a list of known issues, please also refer to file docs/known-issues.txt. 38 39Note that, provided you have the required dependencies, all frontends are 40properly built if you link dynamically. The following just works as expected: 41 ./configure && make 42 43Note: if using the git tree, or changing the autostuff sources, you'll first 44have to run: 45 autoreconf -fi 46