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

[Nick D'Ademo]

Thanks for the quick reply Nick.

Host system is Ubuntu 14.04. ncurses is already installed:

sudo apt-get install libncurses5-dev
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
libncurses5-dev is already the newest version.


On Mon, Nov 10, 2014 at 12:09 PM, nick <xerofoify at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
> >
> > Does anyone have any ideas? (error message below)
> > Much appreciated.
> >
> > 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        = ""
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > *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... *
> >
> >
> >
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.yoctoproject.org/pipermail/yocto/attachments/20141110/4b98585b/attachment.html>