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kconfig: Check for libncurses before menuconfig
authorBorislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Sun, 21 May 2017 09:44:47 +0000 (11:44 +0200)
committerMasahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
Fri, 9 Jun 2017 16:27:49 +0000 (01:27 +0900)
commitff85a1a80e00349dc7783c8dc4d6233d9a709283
tree4bafab82d5579e2185e4c4d0bf15841fd9576a79
parent9ba26a7283f56100eb08a2df48f17da600f60d52
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>
scripts/kconfig/Makefile