linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 4/5] kconfig: refactor ncurses package checks for building mconf

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Date:   Sun, 20 May 2018 17:21:16 +0900
From:   Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@...ionext.com>
To:     Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>
Cc:     Linux Kbuild mailing list <linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org>,
        Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>,
        Ulf Magnusson <ulfalizer@...il.com>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Philippe Ombredanne <pombredanne@...b.com>,
        Kate Stewart <kstewart@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Arvind Prasanna <arvindprasanna@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/5] kconfig: refactor ncurses package checks for building mconf

2018-05-20 3:02 GMT+09:00 Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>:
> On 05/17/18 21:52, Masahiro Yamada wrote:
>> The mconf (or its infrastructure, lxdiaglog) depends on ncurses.
>> check-lxdialog.sh has additional checks in case pkg-config is not
>> available.  However, qconf and gconf already rely on pkg-config to
>> check necessary packages.  For simplification, drop the fallback
>> code from check-lxdialog.sh and move/rename to mconf-cfg.sh to
>> make it work in the same way as the other GUI frontends.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@...ionext.com>
>
> Hi,
>
> I began by testing "make menuconfig" first and immediately got this:
>
> *
> * Unable to find the ncurses.
> * Install ncurses (ncurses-devel or libncurses-dev
> * depending on your distribution)
> *
>
> I do have ncurses-devel installed.  However, it seems that
> pkg-config on openSUSE is not very reliable.  zypper (package management
> tool) says:


Oh, this is unfortunate.

I was eager to use pkg-config only,
but I do not want to cause troubles.

Could you check v2, please?



-- 
Best Regards
Masahiro Yamada