Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 3 Nov 2002 03:09:09 +0000 | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | Subject | Re: Kconfig (qt) -> Gconfig (gtk) |
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On Sun, Nov 03, 2002 at 01:30:09AM +0000, Alan Cox wrote: > On Sun, 2002-11-03 at 00:06, J.A. Magallón wrote: > > As I see it, the onle thing that should be included in a standard kernel > > would be something like a kconfig-xaw, that is sure to be on every box that > > has X, and could be a reference implementation. > > Lots of people no longer include Xaw either nowdays 8) > > Probably the easiest way to do this would be to move the GUI tools out > of the kernel (or maybe leave the common useful ones) and have make > guiconfig do > > if [ -f /usr/sbin/kernel-gui-config ] ; then > /usr/sbin/kernel-gui-config > elif got_qt() ; then > qt config > elif got_gtk() ; then > gtk_config > else > warnign message > make config > fi
Why does the kernel have to know about that tools at all? Just put them into $PATH and let people just call $FOOCONFIG. This works pretty well with mconfig on 2.2/2.4..
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