make xconfig & qt

make xconfig & qt

[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 
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.

Re: make xconfig & qt

[Diego Calleja García]

On Sat, 03 May 2003 21:44:40 +0200
Daniele Pala <dandario@libero.it> 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?

Re: make xconfig & qt

[Balram Adlakha]

On Sat, May 03, 2003 at 08:41:09PM +0200, Diego Calleja García wrote:
> On Sat, 03 May 2003 21:44:40 +0200
> Daniele Pala <dandario@libero.it> 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?

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Re: make xconfig & qt

[Sam Ravnborg]

On Sun, May 04, 2003 at 12:10:10AM +0530, Balram Adlakha wrote:
> 
> 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

Re: make xconfig & qt

[Kevin Puetz]

Daniele Pala 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

Yes, it was rewritten in 2.5 to not suck quite as bad, and now uses Qt.

> 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.

> falling back to menuconfig...

Exactly, you still have menuconfig :-)

> thanks for your patience.