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

[Bruce Ashfield]

On 01/24/2018 04:41 PM, Cal Sullivan wrote:
> 
> 
> 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?

It just fell through the cracks upstream. I didn't hear much of
anything, so I've just continued to carry it.

I see that you also sent a patch for the kernel.bbclass to fix
the same issue for newer kernels, so looks like I can stop
carrying this for my next set of uprevs.

Cheers,

Bruce

> 
> 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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