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

[nick]

Do you run source oe-init-build-env before building and why is your machine
set to nuc seems this may be an issue?
Nick 

On 14-11-09 08:15 PM, Nick D'Ademo wrote:
> 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        = ""
>>>
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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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