linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] kconfig: Check for libncurses before menuconfig

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Message-ID: <20170520203323.6ug3gq2yoms6acsu@pd.tnic>
Date:   Sat, 20 May 2017 22:33:23 +0200
From:   Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
To:     Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@...ionext.com>
Cc:     LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Kbuild mailing list <linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kconfig: Check for libncurses before menuconfig

On Sun, May 21, 2017 at 04:38:35AM +0900, Masahiro Yamada wrote:
> Strange, I could not reproduce this.

Remove libncurses5-dev or whatever it is called on your system and do:

$ make menuconfig
  HOSTCC  scripts/kconfig/mconf.o
In file included from scripts/kconfig/mconf.c:23:0:
scripts/kconfig/lxdialog/dialog.h:38:20: fatal error: curses.h: No such file or directory
 #include CURSES_LOC
                    ^
compilation terminated.
scripts/Makefile.host:124: recipe for target 'scripts/kconfig/mconf.o' failed
make[1]: *** [scripts/kconfig/mconf.o] Error 1
Makefile:548: recipe for target 'menuconfig' failed
make: *** [menuconfig] Error 2

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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