[OE-core] "bitbake -c menuconfig virtual/kernel" fails on ncurses dependency

[Robert Yang]

On 05/26/2015 02:53 PM, Mike Looijmans wrote:
> I get this when running
> bitbake -c menuconfig virtual/kernel
>
> scripts/kconfig/mconf.o: In function `show_help':
> mconf.c:(.text+0x884): undefined reference to `stdscr'
> scripts/kconfig/lxdialog/checklist.o: In function `print_arrows':
> checklist.c:(.text+0x2c): undefined reference to `wmove'
> checklist.c:(.text+0x4c): undefined reference to `acs_map'
> checklist.c:(.text+0x54): undefined reference to `waddch'
> checklist.c:(.text+0x66): undefined reference to `waddnstr'
> checklist.c:(.text+0x76): undefined reference to `wmove'
>
> A bit of googling reveals that this is probably due to "ncurses" not being present.
>
> I just can't figure out what the proper syntax for this dependency would be.
> menuconfig needs the "native" version, so it's not simply DEPENDS+=ncurses here.
>

Try:
DEPENDS += "ncurses-native" ?

// Robert


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