[meta-intel] menuconfig not working with rocko branch and linux-intel

[Cal Sullivan]

On 01/24/2018 07:54 AM, Max Halldén wrote:
> Sure, but it's really not much. I can reproduce it with poky
> and meta-intel at rocko branch with almost no change to the
> default configuration.
>
> If I diff meta-poky/conf/local.conf.sample to my local.conf I get:
> 38c38
> < MACHINE ??= "qemux86"
> ---
> > MACHINE = "intel-corei7-64"
>
> and same for meta-poky/conf/bblayers.conf.sample and my bblayers.conf:
> <   ##OEROOT##/meta \
> <   ##OEROOT##/meta-poky \
> <   ##OEROOT##/meta-yocto-bsp \
> ---
> >   /home/max/projects/menuconfigtest/poky/meta \
> >   /home/max/projects/menuconfigtest/poky/meta-poky \
> >   /home/max/projects/menuconfigtest/poky/meta-yocto-bsp \
> >   /home/max/projects/menuconfigtest/poky/meta-intel \
>
> Originally I built with the crops/poky:ubuntu-16.04 docker
> image, but I can also reproduce it natively on my Ubuntu
> 17.10 machine.
>
> But I think I found a workaround at least. Installing
> libncurses5-dev on the build host solves the problem so
> that's probably why you can't reproduce it.

Yep, that was it. After removing ncurses-devel from my system I can 
reproduce it.

I figured out why it works for linux-yocto and not linux-intel as well. 
It looks like linux-yocto carries a patch that allows you to override 
the ncurses library and headers to not use the host's. See commit 
"e6ebc8e654 menuconfig,check-lxdiaglog.sh: Allow specification of 
ncurses location" in linux-yocto-4.12.

+Bruce, Jason

I see that it was attempted to upstream this patch, but that it never 
made it. Do either of you remember the response that it got?

Thanks,
Cal

>
> Still, libncurses5-dev is not needed when setting
> MACHINE='qemux86' instead of intel-corei7-64, which seems
> weird.
>
> Thanks,
> Max
>
>
> On 2018-01-23 20:48, Cal Sullivan wrote:
>> I wasn't able to reproduce this with either the HEAD of rocko 
>> branches or their release tags.
>> Could you share any changes in your local.conf and your bblayers.conf?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Cal
>>
>> On 01/22/2018 01:51 AM, Max Halldén wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> I have a project based on poky and the meta-intel layer and
>>> both are on the rocko (2.4) branch.
>>>
>>> I have a problem with menuconfig not working. Specifically
>>> 'bitbake -c menuconfig virtual/kernel' works when using
>>> 'vanilla' poky, but not after adding the meta-intel layer
>>> and setting 'MACHINE=intel-corei7-64'.
>>>
>>> I've added some of the error I get below, which seems to
>>> indicate ncurses is missing, but I can't understand what it
>>> is with the meta-intel configuration that makes it not work
>>> for linux-intel when it's working with linux-yocto.
>>>
>>> I've looked for anything ncurses in linux-yocto that isn't
>>> in linux-intel, but can't find anything that looks wrong.
>>>
>>> Best regards
>>> Max
>>>
>>> [...]
>>> menubox.c:(.text+0x874): undefined reference to `wrefresh'
>>> menubox.c:(.text+0x890): undefined reference to `wgetch'
>>> menubox.c:(.text+0x99a): undefined reference to `delwin'
>>> menubox.c:(.text+0x9a2): undefined reference to `delwin'
>>> menubox.c:(.text+0xac2): undefined reference to `wnoutrefresh'
>>> menubox.c:(.text+0xacb): undefined reference to `wrefresh'
>>> menubox.c:(.text+0xb18): undefined reference to `delwin'
>>> menubox.c:(.text+0xb20): undefined reference to `delwin'
>>> menubox.c:(.text+0xb27): undefined reference to `stdscr'
>>> menubox.c:(.text+0xc25): undefined reference to `delwin'
>>> menubox.c:(.text+0xc2d): undefined reference to `delwin'
>>> menubox.c:(.text+0xcdf): undefined reference to `wrefresh'
>>> menubox.c:(.text+0xdf8): undefined reference to `stdscr'
>>> menubox.c:(.text+0xfb9): undefined reference to `wbkgdset'
>>> menubox.c:(.text+0xfc0): undefined reference to `acs_map'
>>> menubox.c:(.text+0xfc7): undefined reference to `waddch'
>>> menubox.c:(.text+0x1059): undefined reference to `scrollok'
>>> scripts/kconfig/lxdialog/menubox.o: In function `do_scroll':
>>> menubox.c:(.text+0x38): undefined reference to `wrefresh'
>>> scripts/kconfig/lxdialog/menubox.o: In function `do_print_item':
>>> menubox.c:(.text+0x17e): undefined reference to `wrefresh'
>>> scripts/kconfig/lxdialog/menubox.o: In function `print_buttons':
>>> menubox.c:(.text+0x2b8): undefined reference to `wrefresh'
>>> scripts/kconfig/lxdialog/menubox.o: In function 
>>> `print_arrows.constprop.0':
>>> menubox.c:(.text+0x3c3): undefined reference to `wrefresh'
>>> collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
>>> scripts/Makefile.host:116: recipe for target 'scripts/kconfig/mconf' 
>>> failed
>>> make[3]: *** [scripts/kconfig/mconf] Error 1
>>> /workdir/build/workspace/sources/linux-intel/Makefile:546: recipe 
>>> for target 'menuconfig' failed
>>> make[2]: *** [menuconfig] Error 2
>>> Makefile:150: recipe for target 'sub-make' failed
>>> make[1]: *** [sub-make] Error 2
>>> Makefile:24: recipe for target '__sub-make' failed
>>> make: *** [__sub-make] Error 2
>>> Command failed.
>>>
>>>
>>
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