Re: 2.6.18-rc4-mm1 -- new depancy on curses development

[Andy Whitcroft]

[/me updates the CC: to Sam's real email.]

Andy Whitcroft wrote:
> Andrew Morton wrote:
> > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.18-rc4/2.6.18-rc4-mm1/ 
>
> >  git-lxdialog.patch
>
> This tree seems to change the Makefile dependancies in the kconfig 
> subdirectory such that a plain compile of the kernel leads to an attempt 
> to build the menuconfig targets.  This in turn adds a new dependancy on 
> the curses development libraries.
>
>   08/15/06-05:23:09 building kernel - make -j4 vmlinux
>     HOSTCC  scripts/kconfig/lxdialog/checklist.o
>   In file included from scripts/kconfig/lxdialog/checklist.c:24:
>               scripts/kconfig/lxdialog/dialog.h:31:20: error: curses.h:
>               No such file or directory
>
> This seems to come from this rather innocent sounding change in that tree:
>
> commit 9238251dddc15b52656e70b74dffe56193d01215
> Author: Sam Ravnborg <sam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date:   Mon Jul 24 21:40:46 2006 +0200
>
>     kconfig/lxdialog: refactor color support

Ok, reading the patch as if its git output isn't a good plan.  The 
changeset appears to be this one:

commit 49140e7b29bb1fcc195efef3e1c54c144dd2eff7
Author: Sam Ravnborg <sam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date:   Thu Jul 27 22:10:27 2006 +0200

    kconfig/menuconfig: lxdialog is now built-in


> which also seems to change the Makefile about, specifically bringing the 
> sub Makefile into the top level one.
>
> [...]
> -       $(Q)$(MAKE) $(build)=scripts/kconfig/lxdialog
> [...]
> +# lxdialog stuff
> +check-lxdialog  := $(srctree)/$(src)/lxdialog/check-lxdialog.sh
> [...]
>
> Sam?
>
> -apw
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