Hi, On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 9:11 PM, Sam Ravnborg <sam@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. Thank you all for the input! I'll take a look at the links you provided and try it out. Best regards, Thomas -- 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
