On Tue, 13 Feb 2007 09:17:51 +0000 Dominic Newton wrote:
> Just a small issue with the latest kernel 2.6.20. When compiling make
> menuconfig our ncurses library is not being detected. I currently use
> 2.6.15 with no problem and comparing the 2 I found a script (
> scripts/kconfig/lxdialog/check-lxdialog.sh ) in the lxdialog directory
> that checks for the ncurses lib and sets compiler flags. For some reason
> it will not find the ncurses library and thus menuconfig will not
> compile and run.
>
>
>
> I have ncurses installed (and symlinked) in the usual locations (/lib,
> /usr/lib, /usr/include). I tried compiling the stock kernel in various
> locations ( /, /usr /usr/src ) - same problem every time. I fixed the
> problem by editing the scripts/kconfig/Makefile line 88-89 to ignore the
> script and set HOST_EXTRACFLAGS = -DCURSES_LOC="<ncurses.h>" and
> HOST_LOADLIBES = -lncurses.
>
> menuconfig runs perfectly now ! I'm hopeless at scripts which is why I
> gave up trying to get check-lxdialog.sh to work properly - sorry...
>
> Any queries please let me know,
What does this print? (from top of linux source tree)
$ sh scripts/kconfig/lxdialog/check-lxdialog.sh -ccflags
and
$ sh scripts/kconfig/lxdialog/check-lxdialog.sh -ldflags gcc
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~Randy
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