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SubjectRe: [PATCH] menuconfig,mconf-cfg: Allow specification of ncurses location
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Hi Bruce,

On 2020-12-01 11:01 a.m., Bruce Ashfield wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 1, 2020 at 12:19 PM Scott Branden
> <scott.branden@broadcom.com> wrote:
>> Hi Masahiro,
>>
>> On 2020-12-01 4:25 a.m., Masahiro Yamada wrote:
>>> On Sat, Nov 28, 2020 at 9:45 AM Scott Branden
>>> <scott.branden@broadcom.com> wrote:
>>>> From: Bruce Ashfield <bruce.ashfield@windriver.com>
>>>>
>>>> In some cross build environments such as the Yocto Project build
>>>> environment it provides an ncurses library that is compiled
>>>> differently than the host's version. This causes display corruption
>>>> problems when the host's curses includes are used instead of the
>>>> includes from the provided compiler are overridden. There is a second
>>>> case where there is no curses libraries at all on the host system and
>>>> menuconfig will just fail entirely.
>>>>
>>>> The solution is simply to allow an override variable in
>>>> check-lxdialog.sh for environments such as the Yocto Project. Adding
>>>> a CROSS_CURSES_LIB and CROSS_CURSES_INC solves the issue and allowing
>>>> compiling and linking against the right headers and libraries.
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
>>>> cc: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
>>>> cc: linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org
>>>> Signed-off-by: Bruce Ashfield <bruce.ashfield@windriver.com>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Scott Branden <scott.branden@broadcom.com>
>>>> ---
>>> Some people solve the cross-compiling in Yocto
>>> by using pkg-config.
>>>
>>>
>>> For example,
>>>
>>> commit 067c650c456e758f933aaf87a202f841d34be269
>>> Author: Pavel Modilaynen <pavel.modilaynen@axis.com>
>>> Date: Fri Jul 12 13:52:19 2019 +0200
>>>
>>> dtc: Use pkg-config to locate libyaml
>>>
>>> Using Makefile's wildcard with absolute path to detect
>>> the presence of libyaml results in false-positive
>>> detection when cross-compiling e.g. in yocto environment.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> mconf-cfg.sh already allows the path flexibility with pkg-config.
>>> Why do you want yet another hook?
>> I hope the yocto community can provide more details on this patch.
>> The yocto environment isolates the build environment from the host tools.
>> Running menuconfig with the upstream kernel does not work on the latest yocto without this patch.
> Sorry for not commenting on the origin patch, gmail buried it within
> some other threads, but luckily this one popped up.
>
> It is true that we've been carrying this for several years to deal with
> the fact that the native sysroot is not searched by the pkg-config
> called by mconf-cfg.sh (since it is separate from host and target
> pkg-config).
>
> As it turns out, in the past few weeks, we have come up with a way
> to inject those native sysroot components into pkg-config without
> the need for any changes to the scripts.
>
> Scott: if you try again the the latest oe-core, and are still seeing
> the problem with the mainline kernel, ping me, and we can see if
> the pkg-config fix isn't holding for you, at that point, yes, we may
> still need a hook like this to solve the problem.
Try reverting this kernel patch from linux-yocto and menuconfig will fail.

menuconfig actually did work with the upstream kernel until the yocto change below was introduced:
"cml1.bbclass: Handle ncurses-native being available via pkg-config"
https://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit/cgit.cgi/poky/commit/?h=master-next&id=ce447d70df386ca55ce1672478b245851556374e

> Cheers,
>
> Bruce
>
>
>
>>>> scripts/kconfig/mconf-cfg.sh | 8 ++++++++
>>>> 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)
>>>> mode change 100755 => 100644 scripts/kconfig/mconf-cfg.sh
>>>>
>>>> diff --git a/scripts/kconfig/mconf-cfg.sh b/scripts/kconfig/mconf-cfg.sh
>>>> old mode 100755
>>>> new mode 100644
>>>> index aa68ec95620d..32448bc198a5
>>>> --- a/scripts/kconfig/mconf-cfg.sh
>>>> +++ b/scripts/kconfig/mconf-cfg.sh
>>>> @@ -4,6 +4,14 @@
>>>> PKG="ncursesw"
>>>> PKG2="ncurses"
>>>>
>>>> +if [ "$CROSS_CURSES_LIB" != "" ]; then
>>>> + echo libs=\'$CROSS_CURSES_LIB\'
>>>> + if [ x"$CROSS_CURSES_INC" != x ]; then
>>>> + echo cflags=\'$CROSS_CURSES_INC\'
>>>> + fi
>>>> + exit 0
>>>> +fi
>>>> +
>>>> if [ -n "$(command -v pkg-config)" ]; then
>>>> if pkg-config --exists $PKG; then
>>>> echo cflags=\"$(pkg-config --cflags $PKG)\"
>>>> --
>>>> 2.17.1
>>>>
>

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