[bitbake-devel] Can't start menuconfig with Bitbake

[Khem Raj]

On 7/12/18 10:08 AM, Clay D. Montgomery wrote:
> Hello,
> 
>    I am having a basic problem with trying to use Bitbake to run
> menuconfig.
> Bitbake otherwise works fine for me. I have done many large builds of
> Yocto.
> 
>  I am running on a Ubuntu 14.04 32-bit system which is up to date, but
> the RAM is limited to 4 GB.
> I have pasted a sample of the errors I get below.  I shortened this
> considerably.
> 
> I would appreciate any advice on how to resolve this.
> 
> Thanks, Clay Montgomery
> 
> 
> 
> bitbake -c menuconfig virtual/kernel
> 
> 
>   GEN     ./Makefile
>   HOSTLD  scripts/kconfig/mconf
> scripts/kconfig/mconf.o: In function `show_help':
> mconf.c:(.text+0x927): undefined reference to `stdscr'
> scripts/kconfig/lxdialog/checklist.o: In function `print_arrows':
> checklist.c:(.text+0x31): undefined reference to `wmove'
> checklist.c:(.text+0x4e): undefined reference to `acs_map'
> checklist.c:(.text+0x5a): undefined reference to `waddch'
> util.c:(.text+0x1826): undefined reference to `keypad'
> util.c:(.text+0x182e): undefined reference to `wgetch'
> util.c:(.text+0x1838): undefined reference to `wgetch'
> menubox.c:(.text+0x11db): undefined reference to `acs_map'
> menubox.c:(.text+0x11eb): undefined reference to `waddch'
> menubox.c:(.text+0x1278): undefined reference to `scrollok'
> scripts/kconfig/lxdialog/menubox.o: In function `do_print_item':
> menubox.c:(.text+0x1ab): undefined reference to `wrefresh'
> scripts/kconfig/lxdialog/menubox.o: In function `print_buttons':
> menubox.c:(.text+0x356): undefined reference to `wrefresh'
> scripts/kconfig/lxdialog/menubox.o: In function `print_arrows.constprop.0':
> menubox.c:(.text+0x478): undefined reference to `wrefresh'
> collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
> make[3]: *** [scripts/kconfig/mconf] Error 1
> make[2]: *** [menuconfig] Error 2
> make[1]: *** [sub-make] Error 2
> make: *** [__sub-make] Error 2
> Command failed.
> Press any key to continue...
> 
> 

it means its missing ncurses library and development headers on your
build host. this task should generally depend on ncurses-native as here

meta/classes/cml1.bbclass:do_menuconfig[depends] +=
"ncurses-native:do_populate_sysroot"

I don't know why this is not working in your case. May be another
workaround is to just install ncurses-dev on your build host.

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