[yocto] Unable to find the ncurses libraries when running menuconfig

[nick]

Check to see if you actuality have it installed on your host system for your package manager.
The library for ncurses for compiling the kernel is different based on your distro, check
your distro's installer and install the correct ncurses package first. If this is still an
issue please reply with a newer error message.
Cheers Nick  

On 14-11-09 08:05 PM, Nick D'Ademo wrote:
> Getting a strange error when attempting to configure the Yocto Linux kernel
> via: bitbake linux-yocto -c menuconfig.
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> Does anyone have any ideas? (error message below)
> Much appreciated.
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> Build Configuration:
> BB_VERSION        = "1.24.0"
> BUILD_SYS         = "x86_64-linux"
> NATIVELSBSTRING   = "Ubuntu-14.04"
> TARGET_SYS        = "x86_64-poky-linux"
> MACHINE           = "nuc"
> DISTRO            = "poky"
> DISTRO_VERSION    = "1.7"
> TUNE_FEATURES     = "m64 corei7"
> TARGET_FPU        = ""
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> *make[1]: Entering directory
> `/home/nick/poky/build/tmp/work/corei7-64-intel-common-poky-linux/linux-yocto/3.17.1+gitAUTOINC+b86dd5c6f4_0caf16d385-r0/linux-corei7-64-intel-common-standard-build'
> GEN     ./Makefile *** Unable to find the ncurses libraries or the ***
> required header files. *** 'make menuconfig' requires the ncurses
> libraries. ***  *** Install ncurses (ncurses-devel) and try again. ***
> make[3]: *** [scripts/kconfig/dochecklxdialog] Error 1make[2]: ***
> [menuconfig] Error 2make[1]: *** [sub-make] Error 2make: *** [__sub-make]
> Error 2Command failed.Press any key to continue... *
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