[OE-core] [PATCH 10/21] ncurses, busybox, cml1.bbclass: Fix menuconfig display corruption

[Richard Purdie]

On Wed, 2013-05-29 at 10:09 -0500, Mark Hatle wrote:
> From: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel at windriver.com>
> 
> Previously there was a change to the ncurses compile to make it more
> like the typical way it was compiled on a host system.  This fixed a
> whole class of host machines, but masked the real underlying problem
> with the display corruption issues and menuconfig.
> 
> The corner case that led to the discovery that the wrong curses.h file
> was getting used was when there was no curses libraries at all on one
> of the development hosts.  What had happened before was that
> /usr/include/curses.h on the host system had to match closely enough
> to the curses.h in the sysroot and then linking against the sysroot
> version of curses.so was ok (meaning no display corruption).  But on
> some systems with ncurses.h vs curses.h such as SuSE hosts, there were
> still issues.
> 
> If we fix the root of the problem and force the mconf and lxdialog to
> use the correct headers and libraries from the sysroot there is no
> further issues and the menuconfig target works properly.  It also
> means we can back out the custom compilation flags to the ncurses
> recipe because they are no longer needed.
> 
> For the kernel part of the menuconfig / nconfig changes it will be
> merged separately and this is all based on:
> 
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/3/3/103
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel at windriver.com>
> ---
>  meta/classes/cml1.bbclass                          |  5 +-
>  .../busybox-1.20.2/busybox-cross-menuconfig.patch  | 69 ++++++++++++++++++++++
>  meta/recipes-core/busybox/busybox_1.20.2.bb        |  3 +-
>  meta/recipes-core/ncurses/ncurses.inc              | 14 -----
>  4 files changed, 74 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100644 meta/recipes-core/busybox/busybox-1.20.2/busybox-cross-menuconfig.patch

Jason asked us to hold off merging this until things were sorted out in
the mainline kernel. Has that happened?

Cheers,

Richard