[yocto] bitbake menuconfig fails

[Zoran Stojsavljevic]

Hello Mircea,

>From my point of view:

*> /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lncursesw*
> collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
> scripts/Makefile.host:111: recipe for target 'scripts/kconfig/mconf'
failed

The first line explains it all. You could not configure 4.14, since for
this you should have ncurses package. I would further say, the
YOCTO ncurses version you have, which is used for 4.8 is outdated, so you
need newer (matching) YOCTO version for 4.14.

Why you are able to configure 4.14 outside of yocto? Because you use
another version of ncurses, one which is host native to
Debian 8. YOCTO probably uses some other host based ncurses inside YOCTO
(in Open Embedded/meta layer, my best guess).

Zoran

On Wed, Dec 6, 2017 at 7:31 AM, Mircea Gliga <mircea.gliga at vitheia.com>
wrote:

> Hello
>
> We are using in our layer a kernel 4.8 recipe (linux-stable_4.8.bb)-
> everything ok.
> I'm trying to upgrade to 4.14, I created a new recipe linux-stable_4.14.bb.
> They live side by side, for now.
> But with the 4.14 kernel when running `bitbake -c menuconfig
> linux-stable`, the new terminal comes up and I get the following error:
>
>   HOSTCC  scripts/basic/fixdep
>   GEN     ./Makefile
>   HOSTCC  scripts/kconfig/mconf.o
>   HOSTCC  scripts/kconfig/zconf.tab.o
>   HOSTCC  scripts/kconfig/lxdialog/checklist.o
>   HOSTCC  scripts/kconfig/lxdialog/util.o
>   HOSTCC  scripts/kconfig/lxdialog/inputbox.o
>   HOSTCC  scripts/kconfig/lxdialog/textbox.o
>   HOSTCC  scripts/kconfig/lxdialog/yesno.o
>   HOSTCC  scripts/kconfig/lxdialog/menubox.o
>   HOSTLD  scripts/kconfig/mconf
> /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lncursesw
> collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
> scripts/Makefile.host:111: recipe for target 'scripts/kconfig/mconf' failed
> make[3]: *** [scripts/kconfig/mconf] Error 1
> /media/mircea/ExtLinux/Adventure/testBuildServer/product-
> sama5-kernel/yocto/build/tmp/work-shared/cuxe/kernel-source/Makefile:548:
> recipe for target 'menuconfig' failed
> make[2]: *** [menuconfig] Error 2
> Makefile:146: recipe for target 'sub-make' failed
> make[1]: *** [sub-make] Error 2
> Makefile:24: recipe for target '__sub-make' failed
> make: *** [__sub-make] Error 2
> Command failed.
>
>
> If I rename linux-stable_4.14.bb to linux-stable_4.14.bb___, then run
> bitbake again (now the build system is working with the 4.8 kernel again)
> => menuconfig starts and works as expected.
>
> I'm using krogoth, 2.1.2, Debian 8 (jessie)
>
> I also tried to config the kernel outside of yocto, downloaded
> https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/linux-4.14.4.tar.xz,
> extracted and run make menuconfig => works as expected
>
> Any hints are appreciated.
>
> Thanks
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