From: Marcus Sundberg <mackan@stacken.kth.se>
  To  : ggi-develop@eskimo.com
  Date: Tue, 17 Aug 1999 21:37:30 +0000

Re: kgicon C&T

Cesar Crusius wrote:
> I meant the KGI package (now in version 0.9). It patches the kernel and
> you have to recompile it without Virtual Consoles support. I tried
> but: neither the kernel (2.2.10) nor KGI compiled successfully.

KGI 0.9 does not yet export any functionality to user-space, and
therefore is
not yet relevant to the operation of LibGGI and it's apps.

> No. There's a line somewhere on configure.in that explicitly adds the "-g"
> flag
> together with some '-D' flags. I don't have the script here, but I'm sure it's
> there.
> --disable-debug and CFLAGS="-O2000" won't do the trick.

Then you are doing something wrong. "-g" is not added with
--disable-debug

> I had to edit the
> configure script myself to be able to compile the libraries without '-g' (and
> we need that because we can't strip libraries).

GNU strip does that just fine for me on Linux-x86. If it doesn't by 
default, just use --strip-unneded.

> > > For kgi, I have the kernel sources in another place (not /usr/src/linux),
> > > but make doesn't recognize this. And 'make' doesn't complete successfuly
> > > (but after some modifications it patches the kernel). Is that normal?
> >
> > What KGI are you talking about ? Steffen's 0.0.9 ?
> 
> Yes...

Hmm? Is it 0.9 or 0.0.9?

//Marcus
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