[Buildroot] xterm fails to compile

[Buildroot] xterm fails to compile

[Frederic Bassaler]

Hi everybody,

I'm currently trying to compile xterm (Buildroot 2011.02) but it fails :

make[1]: quittant le r?pertoire ? /home/fred/buildroot ?
>>> xterm 262 Building
PATH="/home/fred/buildroot/output/host/bin:/home/fred/buildroot/output/host/usr/bin:/home/fred/buildroot/output/host/usr/sbin/:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/games:/usr/games"
PERLLIB="/home/fred/buildroot/output/host/usr/lib/perl"  /usr/bin/make
-j2  -C /home/fred/buildroot/output/build/xterm-262/ make[1]: entrant
dans le r?pertoire ? /home/fred/buildroot/output/build/xterm-262
? /home/fred/buildroot/output/host/usr/bin/i686-unknown-linux-uclibc-gcc
--sysroot=/home/fred/buildroot/output/host/usr/i686-unknown-linux-uclibc/sysroot
-I. -I. -DHAVE_CONFIG_H  -D_GNU_SOURCE  -DNARROWPROTO=1 -DFUNCPROTO=15
-DOSMAJORVERSION=2 -DOSMINORVERSION=6
-I/home/fred/buildroot/output/host/usr/i686-unknown-linux-uclibc/sysroot/usr/include/freetype2
-pipe -Os  -mtune=i686 -march=i686 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
-D_LARGEFILE64_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64
-I/home/fred/buildroot/output/host/usr/i686-unknown-linux-uclibc/sysroot/usr/include
-I/home/fred/buildroot/output/host/usr/i686-unknown-linux-uclibc/sysroot/include
-c ./input.c /home/fred/buildroot/output/host/usr/bin/i686-unknown-linux-uclibc-gcc
--sysroot=/home/fred/buildroot/output/host/usr/i686-unknown-linux-uclibc/sysroot
-I. -I. -DHAVE_CONFIG_H  -D_GNU_SOURCE  -DNARROWPROTO=1 -DFUNCPROTO=15
-DOSMAJORVERSION=2 -DOSMINORVERSION=6
-I/home/fred/buildroot/output/host/usr/i686-unknown-linux-uclibc/sysroot/usr/include/freetype2
-pipe -Os  -mtune=i686 -march=i686 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
-D_LARGEFILE64_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64
-I/home/fred/buildroot/output/host/usr/i686-unknown-linux-uclibc/sysroot/usr/include
-I/home/fred/buildroot/output/host/usr/i686-unknown-linux-uclibc/sysroot/include
-c ./main.c In file included from ./input.c:86: ./xtermcap.h:62:20:
error: curses.h: No such file or directory In file included
from ./main.c:121: ./xtermcap.h:62:20: error: curses.h: No such file or
directory make[1]: *** [input.o] Erreur 1 make[1]: *** Attente des
t?ches non termin?es.... make[1]: *** [main.o] Erreur 1 make[1]:
quittant le r?pertoire ? /home/fred/buildroot/output/build/xterm-262 ?
make: *** [/home/fred/buildroot/output/build/xterm-262/.stamp_built]
Erreur 2



On another note :

I was able to generate a working embedded i386 X.org + Blackbox wm
system, but it seems that it must be done in several steps :
- first build a bare Xorg
- then add the Xorg Drivers and needed utilities

otherwise, some packages may fail to compile because of dependencies
not working (eg. xf86-input-driver would require xorg-server, but
xorg-server wasn't compiled before)

[Buildroot] xterm fails to compile

[Thomas Petazzoni]

Hello Frederic,

On Fri, 4 Mar 2011 12:11:39 +0100
Frederic Bassaler <frederic.bassaler@gmail.com> wrote:

> -c ./main.c In file included from ./input.c:86: ./xtermcap.h:62:20:
> error: curses.h: No such file or directory In file included

Yes, xterm needs ncurses. I have the following patch in one of my
branch since July 2010, but never had the time to finalize it. I think
it should fix your problem:

=======================================================================
commit 2bb119327287ff859d5bc292881fc7e8f6c83bc6
Author: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Date:   Thu Jul 22 15:45:19 2010 +0200

    xterm: add missing dependency on ncurses
    
    Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>

diff --git a/package/xterm/Config.in b/package/xterm/Config.in
index da3e9fe..447c912 100644
--- a/package/xterm/Config.in
+++ b/package/xterm/Config.in
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 config BR2_PACKAGE_XTERM
        bool "xterm"
        depends on BR2_PACKAGE_XORG7
+       select BR2_PACKAGE_NCURSES
        help
          xterm terminal emulator
 
diff --git a/package/xterm/xterm.mk b/package/xterm/xterm.mk
index b07eda4..2304dd7 100644
--- a/package/xterm/xterm.mk
+++ b/package/xterm/xterm.mk
@@ -7,7 +7,8 @@
 XTERM_VERSION:=259
 XTERM_SOURCE:=xterm-$(XTERM_VERSION).tgz
 XTERM_SITE:=ftp://invisible-island.net/xterm
-XTERM_DEPENDENCIES = xserver_xorg-server
+XTERM_DEPENDENCIES = xserver_xorg-server ncurses
 XTERM_INSTALL_TARGET_OPT = DESTDIR=$(TARGET_DIR) install
+XTERM_CONF_OPT = --disable-imake
 
 $(eval $(call AUTOTARGETS,package,xterm))
=======================================================================

> I was able to generate a working embedded i386 X.org + Blackbox wm
> system, but it seems that it must be done in several steps :
> - first build a bare Xorg
> - then add the Xorg Drivers and needed utilities
> 
> otherwise, some packages may fail to compile because of dependencies
> not working (eg. xf86-input-driver would require xorg-server, but
> xorg-server wasn't compiled before)

Hum, which driver failed exactly ? Because for example
xdriver_xf86-input-evdev already has the dependency on
xserver_xorg-server. And from a quick look, it seems that all other
input drivers also have xserver_xorg-server in their dependencies.
Could you bit a more specific about the failure (i.e give us
the .config + build log) ?

Thanks !

Thomas
-- 
Thomas Petazzoni, Free Electrons
Kernel, drivers, real-time and embedded Linux
development, consulting, training and support.
http://free-electrons.com

[Buildroot] xterm fails to compile

[Frederic Bassaler]

Thomas,

Thanks for the quick fix, xterm compiles now.


Le Fri, 4 Mar 2011 13:35:33 +0100,
Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com> a ?crit :

> Hello Frederic,
> 
> On Fri, 4 Mar 2011 12:11:39 +0100
> Frederic Bassaler <frederic.bassaler@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > -c ./main.c In file included from ./input.c:86: ./xtermcap.h:62:20:
> > error: curses.h: No such file or directory In file included
> 
> Yes, xterm needs ncurses. I have the following patch in one of my
> branch since July 2010, but never had the time to finalize it. I think
> it should fix your problem:
> 
> =======================================================================
> commit 2bb119327287ff859d5bc292881fc7e8f6c83bc6
> Author: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
> Date:   Thu Jul 22 15:45:19 2010 +0200
> 
>     xterm: add missing dependency on ncurses
>     
>     Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni
> <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
> 
> diff --git a/package/xterm/Config.in b/package/xterm/Config.in
> index da3e9fe..447c912 100644
> --- a/package/xterm/Config.in
> +++ b/package/xterm/Config.in
> @@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
>  config BR2_PACKAGE_XTERM
>         bool "xterm"
>         depends on BR2_PACKAGE_XORG7
> +       select BR2_PACKAGE_NCURSES
>         help
>           xterm terminal emulator
>  
> diff --git a/package/xterm/xterm.mk b/package/xterm/xterm.mk
> index b07eda4..2304dd7 100644
> --- a/package/xterm/xterm.mk
> +++ b/package/xterm/xterm.mk
> @@ -7,7 +7,8 @@
>  XTERM_VERSION:=259
>  XTERM_SOURCE:=xterm-$(XTERM_VERSION).tgz
>  XTERM_SITE:=ftp://invisible-island.net/xterm
> -XTERM_DEPENDENCIES = xserver_xorg-server
> +XTERM_DEPENDENCIES = xserver_xorg-server ncurses
>  XTERM_INSTALL_TARGET_OPT = DESTDIR=$(TARGET_DIR) install
> +XTERM_CONF_OPT = --disable-imake
>  
>  $(eval $(call AUTOTARGETS,package,xterm))
> =======================================================================
> 
> > I was able to generate a working embedded i386 X.org + Blackbox wm
> > system, but it seems that it must be done in several steps :
> > - first build a bare Xorg
> > - then add the Xorg Drivers and needed utilities
> > 
> > otherwise, some packages may fail to compile because of dependencies
> > not working (eg. xf86-input-driver would require xorg-server, but
> > xorg-server wasn't compiled before)
> 
> Hum, which driver failed exactly ? Because for example
> xdriver_xf86-input-evdev already has the dependency on
> xserver_xorg-server. And from a quick look, it seems that all other
> input drivers also have xserver_xorg-server in their dependencies.
> Could you bit a more specific about the failure (i.e give us
> the .config + build log) ?
> 
> Thanks !
> 
> Thomas

I will have to restart from scratch to see if I can reproduce the
problem (Compiling the whole thing takes a lot of time on my system).