Re: Small problem with kernel 2.6.20 and make menuconfig

[Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>]

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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