make xconfig & qt
Hello.
Sorry for the pretty OT and stupid question, but i just started getting interested in the linux kernel, so i downloaded kernel 2.5.68. Trying to run 'make xconfig' i got into the message 'you don't have installed qt!'...so the xconfig is now dependant from qt? why? what about us poor guy who only use twm and not kde? isn't qt pretty big and fat? ah well, falling back to menuconfig...
thanks for your patience.
Quoted 8 lines · On Sat, 03 May 2003 21:44:40 +0200 Daniele Pala <[email protected]> wrote:
Hello.
Sorry for the pretty OT and stupid question, but i just started getting interested in the linux kernel, so i downloaded kernel 2.5.68. Trying to run 'make xconfig' i got into the message 'you don't have installed qt!'...so the xconfig is now dependant from qt? why? what about us poor guy who only use twm and not kde? isn't qt pretty big and fat? ah well, falling back to menuconfig...
make gconfig?
Quoted 16 lines · Diego Calleja García
Quoted 8 lines · On Sat, 03 May 2003 21:44:40 +0200 Daniele Pala <[email protected]> wrote:
Hello.
Sorry for the pretty OT and stupid question, but i just started getting interested in the linux kernel, so i downloaded kernel 2.5.68. Trying to run 'make xconfig' i got into the message 'you don't have installed qt!'...so the xconfig is now dependant from qt? why? what about us poor guy who only use twm and not kde? isn't qt pretty big and fat? ah well, falling back to menuconfig...
make gconfig?
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I think xconfig should be the "X" based one, qconfig should be the qt based one and gconfig should be the gtk one. Who maintains the Makefile and the scripts in scrips/kconfig?
Quoted 3 lines · Balram Adlakha
I think xconfig should be the "X" based one, qconfig should be the qt based one and gconfig should be the gtk one.
There are two grapical frontends. The qt based and the gtk based. Feel free to contribute with a third ;-)
Sam
Quoted 6 lines · Daniele Pala
Hello.
Sorry for the pretty OT and stupid question, but i just started getting interested in the linux kernel, so i downloaded kernel 2.5.68. Trying to run 'make xconfig' i got into the message 'you don't have installed qt!'...so the xconfig is now dependant from qt? why? what about us poor
Yes, it was rewritten in 2.5 to not suck quite as bad, and now uses Qt.
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guy who only use twm and not kde? isn't qt pretty big and fat? ah well,
Qt != KDE. You only need Qt installed for this. Qt is rather smaller than the kernel source anyway :-)
I think there's a GTK-based configurator around somewhere too, and you could probably rewrite a Tk one if so inclined... the configuration actually uses a library now, so the frontends are decently independent.
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falling back to menuconfig...
Exactly, you still have menuconfig :-)
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thanks for your patience.