[OE-core] kernel menuconfig broken?

[Andreas Müller]

On Mon, Apr 2, 2018 at 11:57 PM, Trevor Woerner <twoerner at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun 2018-04-01 @ 11:49:58 PM, Andreas Müller wrote:
>> When running bitbake -cmenuconfig virtual/kernel I get a flood of
>> undefined reference errors. Am I alone here?
>
> Sadly, I think you might be.
>
>         $ bitbake virtual/kernel -c menuconfig
>
> works fine for me.
>
> I assume you're doing this for something RaspberryPi-ish?
>
>         Build Configuration:
>         BB_VERSION           = "1.37.0"
>         BUILD_SYS            = "x86_64-linux"
>         NATIVELSBSTRING      = "opensuse-42.3"
>         TARGET_SYS           = "arm-oe-linux-gnueabi"
>         MACHINE              = "raspberrypi3"
>         DISTRO               = "nodistro"
>         DISTRO_VERSION       = "nodistro.0"
>         TUNE_FEATURES        = "arm armv7ve vfp thumb neon vfpv4 callconvention-hard cortexa7"
>         TARGET_FPU           = "hard"
>         meta-raspberrypi     = "master:63e53f919089027259a513dc2cd4b140789bf1a3"
>         meta                 = "master:4cedddb83623c79980b354642dfeaf78218ca4b7"
>         meta-oe
>         meta-gnome
>         meta-python
>         meta-networking
>         meta-multimedia      = "master:b9d1d8718834f7287e5a65373b952cbfe9ce83fe"
>         meta-qt5             = "master:e60e849de1158c879bd2c150fe79b207cdac031a"
>         meta-qt5-extra       = "master:a0cf057b2f335e8d2be9180f20770773334ec209"
>         meta-realtime        = "master:250bc6eaa47e550c1db5e2b0ebd42d86ee43650e"
>         meta-browser         = "master:d1c902440cba26a9d1271cfb914633c68ee3791c"
OK I found that I am not alone [1] and followed the suggestion to
install ncurses-devel. Strange: it install ncurses-libs x86_64. Now I
have back menuconfig but it looks horrible: All framing chars are
displayed as '@'. If I remember correct there was such an issue long
lime ago.

However it is not beautiful but I can work with it.

[1] https://github.com/crops/poky-container/issues/17

Andreas