On Tue, Dec 02, 2008 at 09:15:43AM -0500, Martin d Anjou wrote:
> >Is there any existing project of a GUI for make?
>
> I don't know but the first thing that comes to mind is the kernel's "make
> menuconfig". I've always been curious to understand how it worked.
menuconfig of the kernel is a configuration tool and is not in
any way a frontend for make.
You use menuconfig to say what you want included in
your kernel.
This results in a file containing a lot of assignmnets
like this:
CONFIG_FOO = y
CONFIG_BAR = m
These assignmnets in combinations with some intellegent use
of the features og gmake allow us in the kernel to
use simle assignmnets to define what we want to build.
A typical kbuild fragment looks like this:
obj-$(CONFIG_FOO) += foo.o
So if CONFIG_FOO expands to 'y' then we append
obj-y the value foo.o and we use this to build
what is requested.
When you build the kernel you do two simple steps:
"make menuconfig" to configure your kernel
"make" to build your kernel.
Sam
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