Re: kbuild/kconfig for non-Linux projects

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I am new to this list, but trying to reply to an older thread, re-using its title/subject. I am going to quote Arnaud's message because my question relates to it.

@Arnaud: I have successfully downloaded, installed and built a tarball from your 2.6.39 branch. So far, so good. What I am trying to do, though, is to refresh an older kbuild version, taken from Buildroot some about years ago. It works nicely and I especially like the warnings for cyclic references and missing direct dependencies.

There is one issue we are facing in our open source project (http://freetz.org), though: Our previous kconfig version used symbols which were identical in .config with the names in Config.in, i.e. they had no "CONFIG_" prefixes. Now kconfig writes .config files with those prefixes, so in order not to break our build system we had to add scripts replacing names back and forth before we start conf/mconf and after they terminate.

Question: Is there a straightforward way to make kconfig read/write symbols *without* "CONFIG_" prefixes? As I am not a C programmer, would you mind providing a patch if necessary?

Respectfully
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Alexander Kriegisch


using kconfig outside the linux kernel tree should be trivial,
normally, as you said, all the Linux "branding" should have been made
configurable. The trick might be to have the correct Makefile glue to
let it build. If you want some of the work pre-done, I just pushed an
old repository of mine on github. It should contains only what's
needed to build the various part of kconfig:

https://github.com/lacombar/kconfig/

I did not really touch it since October 2010, so it is certainly
missing parts (especially bug fixes). Moreover, it squashes commit to
keep the history clean, but I tried to keep the shortlog to have an
idea what has been going on. Last warning, I do not guarantee the tree
integrity (ie. I love rebasing :))
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