Bug 2070

Summary:	ncurses module is broken in python
Product:	[Build System, Metadata & Runtime] OE-Core	Reporter:	Scott Garman <scott.a.garman>
Component:	devtools / tool chain	Assignee:	Scott Garman <scott.a.garman>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	major
Priority:	High	CC:	meta.mr.watcher, meta.watcher, obi, sgw
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	1.2 M4
Hardware:	x86
OS:	Multiple
Whiteboard:	(P2) 2012-03-13: Fix committed - ready for QA
OS type for building Yocto:	---	Type of Regression:	---
Verified:		Documentation change:	---

Description Scott Garman 2012-03-09 22:43:21 UTC

Sergey Lapin reported on the oe-core mailing list that the ncurses module does not work in python. 

To test this, build an image with python-ncurses in it, and run the interactive interpreter. "import curses" will result in an "ImportError: No module named _curses"

Reverting this commit works around the problem:

http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit/cgit.cgi/poky/commit/?id=f8f5c054060f446f9f743befbd0bcba35b877473

I'm almost ready with a fix for this.

Comment 1 Andreas Oberritter 2012-03-10 02:10:41 UTC

This is related to https://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1937

Comment 2 Scott Garman 2012-03-15 15:46:40 UTC

This is now fixed in oe-core and poky master. A number of commits were needed to fully resolve this issue, this one is the final one that you'll need:

http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit/cgit.cgi/poky/commit/?id=ce150811a606674edb43e401fa9a0cf52568ad5e