From: Yann E. MORIN" Date: Tue, 29 May 2012 22:12:01 +0000 (+0200) Subject: readme: reformat and fix typos X-Git-Tag: v3.5.0-0~18 X-Git-Url: https://git.sur5r.net/?p=kconfig-frontends;a=commitdiff_plain;h=8055cca82b351e69dd2463b2b1ba6f61ac3ced9b readme: reformat and fix typos Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" --- diff --git a/README b/README index 408a67b..c4a72d5 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -1,42 +1,39 @@ -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... +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 --disable-shared --enable-static \ +- 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" nconf_EXTRA_LIBS=-lgpm - -- the nconf frontends requires (at least on my machine) to linked - against GPM; this is not detected when staticaly 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 - prevent 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. - -Note that, provided you have the required dependencies, all -frontends are properly built if you link dynamicaly. The following -just works as expected: + 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 staticaly 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. + +Note that, provided you have the required dependencies, all frontends are +properly built if you link dynamicaly. The following just works as expected: ./configure && make