This directory 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.

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 --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:
    ./configure && make