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

Andy Whitcroft
2006-08-16T10:37:21Z

[/me updates the CC: to Sam's real email.]

Andy Whitcroft wrote:
> 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
>

Ok, reading the patch as if its git output isn't a good plan. The
changeset appears to be this one:

commit 49140e7b29bb1fcc195efef3e1c54c144dd2eff7
Author: Sam Ravnborg <sam@mars.ravnborg.org>
Date: Thu Jul 27 22:10:27 2006 +0200

kconfig/menuconfig: lxdialog is now built-in

> 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
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