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authorBorislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>2017-05-21 11:44:47 +0200
committerMasahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>2017-06-10 01:27:49 +0900
commitff85a1a80e00349dc7783c8dc4d6233d9a709283 (patch)
tree4bafab82d5579e2185e4c4d0bf15841fd9576a79 /scripts
parent9ba26a7283f56100eb08a2df48f17da600f60d52 (diff)
downloadlinux-ff85a1a80e00349dc7783c8dc4d6233d9a709283.tar.gz
kconfig: Check for libncurses before menuconfig
There is a check and a nice user-friendly message when the curses
library is not present on the system and the user wants to do "make
menuconfig". It doesn't get issued, though. Instead, we fail the build
when mconf.c doesn't find the curses.h header:

    HOSTCC  scripts/kconfig/mconf.o
  In file included from scripts/kconfig/mconf.c:23:0:
  scripts/kconfig/lxdialog/dialog.h:38:20: fatal error: curses.h: No such file or directory
   #include CURSES_LOC
                      ^
  compilation terminated.

Make that check a prerequisite to mconf so that the user sees the error
message instead:

  $ make menuconfig
   *** Unable to find the ncurses libraries or the
   *** required header files.
   *** 'make menuconfig' requires the ncurses libraries.
   ***
   *** Install ncurses (ncurses-devel) and try again.
   ***
  scripts/kconfig/Makefile:203: recipe for target 'scripts/kconfig/dochecklxdialog' failed
  make[1]: *** [scripts/kconfig/dochecklxdialog] Error 1
  Makefile:548: recipe for target 'menuconfig' failed
  make: *** [menuconfig] Error 2

Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'scripts')
-rw-r--r--scripts/kconfig/Makefile2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/scripts/kconfig/Makefile b/scripts/kconfig/Makefile
index 90a091b6ae4d..eb8144643b78 100644
--- a/scripts/kconfig/Makefile
+++ b/scripts/kconfig/Makefile
@@ -196,7 +196,7 @@ clean-files     += config.pot linux.pot
 
 # Check that we have the required ncurses stuff installed for lxdialog (menuconfig)
 PHONY += $(obj)/dochecklxdialog
-$(addprefix $(obj)/,$(lxdialog)): $(obj)/dochecklxdialog
+$(addprefix $(obj)/, mconf.o $(lxdialog)): $(obj)/dochecklxdialog
 $(obj)/dochecklxdialog:
 	$(Q)$(CONFIG_SHELL) $(check-lxdialog) -check $(HOSTCC) $(HOST_EXTRACFLAGS) $(HOSTLOADLIBES_mconf)