2.6.18-rc4-mm1 -- new depancy on curses development

Andy Whitcroft
2006-08-16T09:43:42Z

Andrew Morton wrote:
> ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.18-rc4/2.6.18-rc4-mm1/

> git-lxdialog.patch

This tree seems to change the Makefile dependancies in the kconfig
subdirectory such that a plain compile of the kernel leads to an attempt
to build the menuconfig targets. This in turn adds a new dependancy on
the curses development libraries.

08/15/06-05:23:09 building kernel - make -j4 vmlinux
HOSTCC scripts/kconfig/lxdialog/checklist.o
In file included from scripts/kconfig/lxdialog/checklist.c:24:
scripts/kconfig/lxdialog/dialog.h:31:20: error: curses.h:
No such file or directory

This seems to come from this rather innocent sounding change in that tree:

commit 9238251dddc15b52656e70b74dffe56193d01215
Author: Sam Ravnborg <sam@mars.ravnborg.org>
Date: Mon Jul 24 21:40:46 2006 +0200

kconfig/lxdialog: refactor color support

which also seems to change the Makefile about, specifically bringing the
sub Makefile into the top level one.

[...]
- $(Q)$(MAKE) $(build)=scripts/kconfig/lxdialog
[...]
+# lxdialog stuff
+check-lxdialog := $(srctree)/$(src)/lxdialog/check-lxdialog.sh
[...]

Sam?

-apw