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

[Bob Cochran]

On 11/09/2014 08:15 PM, Nick D'Ademo wrote:
> Thanks for the quick reply Nick.
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> Host system is Ubuntu 14.04. ncurses is already installed:
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> sudo apt-get install libncurses5-dev
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree
> Reading state information... Done
> libncurses5-dev is already the newest version.


Oh boy, I've seen this before.  I seem to remember this being caused by 
a problem with the path setup or something in the environment and maybe 
not being able to find the scripts folder or reaching a wrong folder 
first.

How are you setting up your environment before invoking bitbake?

Were you using the ADT?  If so check out cross compiling the kernel 
here: 
http://www.openembedded.org/wiki/SDK/Toolchain/Application_Developer_Toolkit



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