[OE-core] kernel menuconfig broken?

[Bruce Ashfield]

On 2018-04-12 5:38 PM, Cal Sullivan wrote:
> If you're using a non-linux-yocto kernel you likely need to apply this 
> patch to your kernel as well:
> 
> https://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit/cgit.cgi/meta-intel/tree/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-intel/0001-menuconfig-check-lxdiaglog.sh-Allow-specification-of.patch 
> 
> 
> (This is in all linux-yocto kernels, I'm only linking to meta-intel 
> because I knew where it was off the top of my head)
> 
> This was sent upstream but last I looked it didn't gain any traction. I 
> think Bruce resent it recently but I can't be sure.

Yes, and I'm sending it yet again! :D

Bruce

> 
> Thanks,
> Cal
> 
> On 04/12/2018 01:28 PM, Andreas Müller wrote:
>> 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
>