[OE-core] "bitbake -c menuconfig virtual/kernel" fails on ncurses dependency

[Mike Looijmans]

On 26-05-15 11:03, Mike Looijmans wrote:
> On 26-05-15 10:40, Andrea Adami wrote:
>> On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 10:29 AM, Mike Looijmans
>> <mike.looijmans at topic.nl> wrote:
>>> On 26-05-15 10:14, Mike Looijmans wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On 26-05-15 09:26, Mike Looijmans wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> On 26-05-15 09:13, Mike Looijmans wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On 26-05-15 09:02, Bruce Ashfield wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 2:53 AM, Mike Looijmans
>>>>>>> <mike.looijmans at topic.nl>
>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I get this when running
>>>>>>>> bitbake -c menuconfig virtual/kernel
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> scripts/kconfig/mconf.o: In function `show_help':
>>>>>>>> mconf.c:(.text+0x884): undefined reference to `stdscr'
>>>>>>>> scripts/kconfig/lxdialog/checklist.o: In function `print_arrows':
>>>>>>>> checklist.c:(.text+0x2c): undefined reference to `wmove'
>>>>>>>> checklist.c:(.text+0x4c): undefined reference to `acs_map'
>>>>>>>> checklist.c:(.text+0x54): undefined reference to `waddch'
>>>>>>>> checklist.c:(.text+0x66): undefined reference to `waddnstr'
>>>>>>>> checklist.c:(.text+0x76): undefined reference to `wmove'
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> This has popped up on and off for several years now, and we have
>>>>>>> a few
>>>>>>> bugzilla
>>>>>>> entries that track it. The fix is never as simple as we would like.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> The most recent version is here:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> https://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7609
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> If you have more details about your enviroment, adding them to
>>>>>>> that bug
>>>>>>> would
>>>>>>> be idea.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> The problem with using the -native version, or the host, is that at
>>>>>>> times
>>>>>>> menu
>>>>>>> config is rendered unusable. The fix isn't only in the dependencies,
>>>>>>> but in
>>>>>>> the
>>>>>>> way that menuconfig is build within the kernel environment.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> This older bug tracks the details of that:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> https://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3898
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I have an Ubuntu 14 system. The weird thing is, that I have several
>>>>>> almost
>>>>>> identical machines, and some of them fail and some don't.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> This one works fine:
>>>>>> MACHINE=topic-miami-florida-med-xc7z030
>>>>>>
>>>>>> This one fails:
>>>>>> MACHINE=topic-miami-florida-gen-xc7z030
>>>>>>
>>>>>> They all use the same kernel recipe, version, git tag, etc. These two
>>>>>> even
>>>>>> share the very same defconfig. Their builds run within the same OE
>>>>>> environment, so the native sysroot for both is the same too!
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> I output "bitbake -c menuconfig virtual/kernel -e" for both
>>>>> machines into
>>>>> two
>>>>> files, then did a find/replace "med" with "gen", and then looked
>>>>> the the
>>>>> differences with meld. Both machines use the same environments all
>>>>> over,
>>>>> only
>>>>> differences are time stamps and task checksums.
>>>>>
>>>>> Next I'm gonna try the old "remove tmp" trick.
>>>>
>> I was there, it will fail (Ubuntu 14.04 fwiw).
>>
>>>>
>>>> Removing tmp did not help either. Forcibly rebuilding ncurses-native
>>>> also
>>>> did
>>>> not help.
>>
>> Yes, as strange as it is, you need to bitbake ncurses.
>
> Wow, indeed, "bitbake ncurses -c populate_sysroot -f" made the
> menuconfig work again.
>
> Looks like ncurses "fixes" something that ncurses-native broke.

Waaah. I just got this very same problem back, but whatever I try, I 
can't get it to work properly again using the above workaround.



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Mike Looijmans