[OE-core] latest updates make kernel menuconfig unusable

[Andreas Müller]

On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 2:29 AM, Khem Raj <raj.khem at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 11:55 AM, Martin Jansa <martin.jansa at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 04:20:03PM +0200, Andreas Müller wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> since
>>>
>>> commit fe417e8a4d625c6933de72163d2fee52ac47f571
>>> Author: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie at linuxfoundation.org>
>>> Date:   Thu May 31 13:22:34 2012 +0000
>>>
>>>     cmd1.bbclass: Ensure ncurses is built and used for menuconfig tasks
>>>
>>>     Currently, the task just exits if something goes wrong. This adds the
>>>     ncurses-native dependency. It also adds a small delay before closing the
>>>     window so any messages displayed there can be seen.
>>>
>>>     Trying to get the kernel build system to correctly find and link with
>>>     our copy of ncurses is some kind of nightmare. I ended up having to add
>>>     it to HOST_LOADLIBES globally for this task which is rather nasty but I
>>>     couldn't find any other way.
>>>
>>>     [YOCTO #2513]
>>>
>>>     Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie at linuxfoundation.org>
>>>
>>> my menuconfig is unusable (see screenshot attached). I reverted it and
>>> can work as before.
>>>
>>> I am working on Fedora 15 and set in my local.conf
>>>
>>> TERMCMD = "${GNOME_TERMCMD}"
>>> TERMCMDRUN = "${GNOME_TERMCMDRUN}"
>>
>> I can confirm the same look&feel with
>> TERMCMD = "${SCREEN_TERMCMD}"
>> TERMCMDRUN = "${SCREEN_TERMCMDRUN}"
>>
>
> seems like a locale issue.
>
FYI

Still have this behaviour and can work around it by commenting out

OE_TERMINAL_EXPORTS += "HOST_EXTRACFLAGS HOSTLDFLAGS HOST_LOADLIBES"

in cml1.bbclass.

Andreas