[OE-core] latest updates make kernel menuconfig unusable
Paul Eggleton
paul.eggleton at linux.intel.com
Thu Sep 6 13:30:57 UTC 2012
On Thursday 02 August 2012 22:25:18 Liang Li wrote:
> On 2012-08-02 19:07, Andreas M�ller <schnitzeltony at googlemail.com> wrote:
> > 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 M黮ler 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.
>
> I have same issue on fedora 17, make it works for my host with
> below temporary tweak:
>
> diff --git meta/classes/cml1.bbclass meta/classes/cml1.bbclass
> index bd25311..948cfad 100644
> --- meta/classes/cml1.bbclass
> +++ meta/classes/cml1.bbclass
> @@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ HOSTLDFLAGS = "${BUILD_LDFLAGS}"
> HOST_LOADLIBES = "-lncurses"
>
> python do_menuconfig() {
> + d.setVar("HOSTLDFLAGS", "")
> oe_terminal("${SHELL} -c \"make menuconfig; echo 'Pausing for
> 5 seconds'; sleep 5\"", '${PN} Configuration', d)
> }
> do_menuconfig[depends] += "ncurses-native:do_populate_sysroot"
>
> ---
>
> FYI.
>
> Regards,
> Liang Li
>
Is there a proper fix for this issue if clearing HOSTLDFLAGS isn't the right
one? I'm not quite sure how to reproduce the problem here.
Cheers,
Paul
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Paul Eggleton
Intel Open Source Technology Centre
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