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| author | Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com> | 2009-07-27 18:08:32 +0200 |
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| committer | Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com> | 2009-07-27 18:09:45 +0200 |
| commit | d9a9501771d0aeb22967adeec9e0ac232e1a003d (patch) | |
| tree | c1164fea883aff14b8dcaa21b602a4e2dfdd40df /docs/buildroot.html | |
| parent | 7e7576c3d8687a779882d17df9b12ce8486c1ec6 (diff) | |
documentation: mention the new xconfig interface
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'docs/buildroot.html')
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1 files changed, 18 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/docs/buildroot.html b/docs/buildroot.html index b49208c27..8cd705df4 100644 --- a/docs/buildroot.html +++ b/docs/buildroot.html @@ -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 "make menuconfig" 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<TAB> 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 |