3284 2012-10-12 15:10:30 +0000 bitbake -c menuconfig doesn't check errors returned by make menuconfig 2012-10-15 20:47:59 +0000 1 1 7 Build System, Metadata & Runtime BitBake bitbake 1.1 x86 x86 RESOLVED DUPLICATE 2513 Medium normal 1.4 1 bogdan.purcareata richard.purdie poky.bs.watcher poky.watcher sgw --- --- --- oldest_to_newest 26558 0 bogdan.purcareata 2012-10-12 15:10:30 +0000 I followed the instructions at: http://www.yoctoproject.org/docs/1.1/yocto-project-qs/yocto-project-qs.html installed the prerequisites in Fedora 17: $ sudo yum groupinstall "development tools" $ sudo yum install python m4 make wget curl ftp hg tar bzip2 gzip \ unzip python-psyco perl texinfo texi2html diffstat openjade \ docbook-style-dsssl sed docbook-style-xsl docbook-dtds \ docbook-utils sed bc eglibc-devel ccache pcre pcre-devel quilt \ groff linuxdoc-tools patch linuxdoc-tools cmake help2man \ perl-ExtUtils-MakeMaker tcl-devel gettext chrpath ncurses apr \ SDL-devel mesa-libGL-devel mesa-libGLU-devel gnome-doc-utils \ autoconf automake libtool xterm and downloaded the yocto project: $ wget http://downloads.yoctoproject.org/releases/yocto/yocto-1.1/poky-edison-6.0.tar.bz2 $ tar xjf poky-edison-6.0.tar.bz2 $ source poky-edison-6.0/oe-init-build-env edison-6.0-build Running: bitbake -c menuconfig linux-yocto outputs Loading cache: 100% |############################################################################################################################################| ETA: 00:00:00 Loaded 1036 entries from dependency cache. OE Build Configuration: BB_VERSION = "1.13.3" TARGET_ARCH = "i586" TARGET_OS = "linux" MACHINE = "qemux86" DISTRO = "poky" DISTRO_VERSION = "1.1" TUNE_FEATURES = "m32 i586" TARGET_FPU = "" meta meta-yocto = "<unknown>:<unknown>" NOTE: Resolving any missing task queue dependencies NOTE: Preparing runqueue NOTE: Executing SetScene Tasks NOTE: Executing RunQueue Tasks NOTE: Running task 293 of 293 (ID: 7, /home/juggernaut/bitbake_menuconfig_bug/poky-edison-6.0/meta/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-yocto_3.0.bb, do_menuconfig) NOTE: package linux-yocto-3.0.4+git1+d05450e4aef02c1b7137398ab3a9f8f96da74f52_1+72671808fdbe69a9fe03fd8f094e7c59da04a28c-r2: task do_menuconfig: Started WARNING: Screen started. Please connect in another terminal with "screen -r devshell" NOTE: package linux-yocto-3.0.4+git1+d05450e4aef02c1b7137398ab3a9f8f96da74f52_1+72671808fdbe69a9fe03fd8f094e7c59da04a28c-r2: task do_menuconfig: Succeeded NOTE: Tasks Summary: Attempted 293 tasks of which 292 didn't need to be rerun and 0 failed. It finishes successfully and without halt on the menuconfig. When running make menuconfig in "${WORKDIR}/linux-${MACHINE}-${LINUX_KERNEL_TYPE}-build", I get the following error: *** Unable to find the ncurses libraries or the *** required header files. *** 'make menuconfig' requires the ncurses libraries. *** *** Install ncurses (ncurses-devel) and try again. *** make[3]: *** [scripts/kconfig/dochecklxdialog] Error 1 make[2]: *** [menuconfig] Error 2 make[1]: *** [sub-make] Error 2 make: *** [all] Error 2 which is not propagated in the upper levels of bitbake. After installing the ncurses-devel package, bitbake -c menuconfig linux-yocto runs normally. 26616 1 richard.purdie 2012-10-15 20:47:59 +0000 This is a bug against 1.1 that was fixed in master with: http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit.cgi/poky/commit/?id=66123b92557a7c1d63c29e90d9a8ba4ef146fc8a http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit.cgi/poky/commit/?id=288dcf4238ac181fbe88e817e299912071fd9635 http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit.cgi/poky/commit/?id=7e62e24b6cfd1683cd4b7ba565537b25d1b604f8 and is a duplicate of https://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2513 *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 2513 ***