On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 10:08:08AM +0100, Thomas De Schampheleire wrote: > Hi, > > I'm interested in using kbuild/kconfig for other projects than the > Linux kernel. I notice that a lot of projects (e.g. Buildroot, > Busybox, uClibc, OpenBricks, ...) are already using this framework, > but it's unclear to me which steps are needed to do so. > > I found a related thread on this mailing list that seemed to have died out. > http://www.mail-archive.com/kbuild-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/msg02487.html > > I also found a code repository 'menuconfig' here, although I doubt > that this is an official one: > http://code.google.com/p/menuconfig/source/browse/trunk/ > > Specifically, I'd like to know: > * are there 'official' sources to kbuild in some repository outside > the linux kernel? > * which steps are needed to use kbuild in a project other than the > linux kernel? Is there some documentation available? You could take a look at klibc - the kbuild integration used there is much simpler than what we have in the kernel. It may need a little refresh - but copying over Kbuild.include should be 90% of the update. As for documentation - you should at least read Documentation/kbuild/* > * what is the license under which kbuild is distributed? In case it's > GPL, does this impact the license of the software project using > kbuild, i.e. does using kbuild imply the project being a derived work? kbuild is part of the build-system. So there is nothing wrong using kbuild to build your proprietary (closed source) stuff. So kbuild are under GPLv2 - but that does not impact you program. Good luck! Sam -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kbuild" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
