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authorThomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>2009-07-27 18:08:32 +0200
committerThomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>2009-07-27 18:09:45 +0200
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documentation: mention the new xconfig interface
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
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@@ -155,6 +155,17 @@
$ make menuconfig
</pre>
+<p>to run the curses-based configurator, or</p>
+
+<pre>
+ $ make xconfig
+</pre>
+
+ <p>to run the Qt3-based configurator. On Debian-like systems, the
+ <code>libncurses5-dev</code> package is required to use the
+ <i>menuconfig</i> interface, and the <code>libqt3-mt-dev</code> is
+ required to use the <i>xconfig</i> interface.</p>
+
<p>For each entry of the configuration tool, you can find associated help
that describes the purpose of the entry. </p>
@@ -219,9 +230,9 @@
<h3><a name="offline_builds" id="offline_builds"></a>
Offline builds</h3>
- <p>If you intend to do an offline-build and just want to download all
- sources that you previously selected in &quot;make menuconfig&quot; then
- issue:</p>
+ <p>If you intend to do an offline-build and just want to download
+ all sources that you previously selected in the configurator
+ (<i>menuconfig</i> or <i>xconfig</i>) then issue:</p>
<pre>
$ make source
</pre>
@@ -340,9 +351,10 @@ $ make me&lt;TAB&gt;
is made. So simply rebuilding the image by running
make should propagate any new changes to the image. </li>
- <li>When configuring the build system, using <code>make menuconfig</code>,
- you can specify the contents of the /etc/hostname and /etc/issue
- (the welcome banner) in the <code>PROJECT</code> section</li>
+ <li>When configuring the build system, using <code>make
+ menuconfig</code> or <code>make xconfig</code>, you can specify
+ the contents of the /etc/hostname and /etc/issue (the welcome
+ banner) in the <code>PROJECT</code> section</li>
</ul>
<h2><a name="custom_busybox" id="custom_busybox"></a>Customizing the