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

[Mike Looijmans]

On 26-05-15 09:26, Mike Looijmans wrote:
> On 26-05-15 09:13, Mike Looijmans wrote:
>> On 26-05-15 09:02, Bruce Ashfield wrote:
>>> On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 2:53 AM, Mike Looijmans <mike.looijmans at topic.nl>
>>> 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'
>>>
>>> This has popped up on and off for several years now, and we have a few
>>> bugzilla
>>> entries that track it. The fix is never as simple as we would like.
>>>
>>> The most recent version is here:
>>>
>>> https://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7609
>>>
>>> If you have more details about your enviroment, adding them to that bug would
>>> be idea.
>>>
>>> The problem with using the -native version, or the host, is that at times menu
>>> config is rendered unusable. The fix isn't only in the dependencies, but in
>>> the
>>> way that menuconfig is build within the kernel environment.
>>>
>>> This older bug tracks the details of that:
>>>
>>> https://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3898
>>
>> I have an Ubuntu 14 system. The weird thing is, that I have several almost
>> identical machines, and some of them fail and some don't.
>>
>> This one works fine:
>> MACHINE=topic-miami-florida-med-xc7z030
>>
>> This one fails:
>> MACHINE=topic-miami-florida-gen-xc7z030
>>
>> They all use the same kernel recipe, version, git tag, etc. These two even
>> share the very same defconfig. Their builds run within the same OE
>> environment, so the native sysroot for both is the same too!
>
> I output "bitbake -c menuconfig virtual/kernel -e" for both machines into two
> files, then did a find/replace "med" with "gen", and then looked the the
> differences with meld. Both machines use the same environments all over, only
> differences are time stamps and task checksums.
>
> Next I'm gonna try the old "remove tmp" trick.

Removing tmp did not help either. Forcibly rebuilding ncurses-native also did 
not help.

I'm now trying a complete clean start with current master branches...



Kind regards,

Mike Looijmans
System Expert

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