Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 13 Feb 2007 09:15:34 -0800 | From | Randy Dunlap <> | Subject | Re: Small problem with kernel 2.6.20 and make menuconfig |
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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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