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

[nick]

Hey Nick,
This seems to then be an issue with incorrect paths or build information in your nuc.conf
as the most likely culprit. If you can post your machine's conf file I will be glad to see
if there are any issues I can spot.
Nick 

On 14-11-09 08:33 PM, Nick D'Ademo wrote:
> 1) source oe-init-build-env is run before building.
> 2) We are actually using a custom machine .conf based on nuc.conf, so
> actually: MACHINE = "custom_machine_name". I replaced it with "nuc" in this
> post to avoid confusion.
> 
> On Mon, Nov 10, 2014 at 12:25 PM, nick <xerofoify at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> 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        = ""
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> *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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