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