From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: by yocto-www.yoctoproject.org (Postfix, from userid 118) id B9E61E00849; Sun, 9 Nov 2014 17:32:06 -0800 (PST) X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on yocto-www.yoctoproject.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Spam-HAM-Report: * -1.9 BAYES_00 BODY: Bayes spam probability is 0 to 1% * [score: 0.0000] Received: from smtp.webfaction.com (mail6.webfaction.com [74.55.86.74]) by yocto-www.yoctoproject.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 820FDE007C0 for ; Sun, 9 Nov 2014 17:32:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from [192.168.1.10] (unknown [68.38.40.177]) by smtp.webfaction.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2FDC1207D5B2 for ; Mon, 10 Nov 2014 01:32:04 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <5460158A.1000108@mindchasers.com> Date: Sun, 09 Nov 2014 20:31:54 -0500 From: Bob Cochran User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.2.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: yocto@yoctoproject.org References: <54601032.8020203@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: Subject: Re: Unable to find the ncurses libraries when running menuconfig X-BeenThere: yocto@yoctoproject.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussion of all things Yocto Project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2014 01:32:06 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 11/09/2014 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. 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 > > > On Mon, Nov 10, 2014 at 12:09 PM, nick > 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... * > > > > > > > > > >