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SubjectRe: make *config regression: pkg-build
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On 08/19/2018 04:15 AM, Meelis Roos wrote:
> Just tried to run 'make menuconfig' on v4.18-10568-g08b5fa819970 and
> found a bad surprise:
>
> 'make *config' requires 'pkg-config'. Please install it.
> make[1]: *** [scripts/kconfig/Makefile:219: scripts/kconfig/.mconf-cfg] Error 1
>
> This is clearly a regression - I have libncurses devele pakcage
> installed in the default system location (as do 99%+ on actuall
> develeopers proobably) and in this case, pkg-config is useless.
> pkg-config is needed only when libraries and headers are installed in
> non-default locations but it is bad to require installation of
> pkg-config on all the machines where make menuconfig would be possibly
> run (for example, I have a aboult 100 machine kernel testbed with
> self-hosted kernel compilation and machine-specific kernel
> configurations that ocassionally need tweaking).
>
> I notice 4.18 complained it can not find pkg-config but still worked.
> This is clearly better than now.
>
> If we want to support developers with libraries in non-default
> locations, why not - but the common case of system include path should
> work without any trouble or warnings. For exaple, test if compilation
> against ncurses works, and if not retry it with pkg-config (and error
> out if it does not give working result).
>

Hi,
This is due to my patch: 4ab3b80159d4db63b902ef635d4b5e882911b2da.

Yamada-san, any ideas? Feel free to just revert it.

thanks,
--
~Randy

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