Bug 2513

Summary: bitbake -c menuconfig silently fails if ncurses is not installed
Product: [Build System, Metadata & Runtime] Meta-yocto Reporter: David Nyström <david.nystrom>
Component: meta-yoctoAssignee: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie>
Status: VERIFIED FIXED QA Contact:
Severity: minor    
Priority: Low CC: bogdan.purcareata, dvhart, laurentiu.serban, poky.bs.watcher, poky.watcher
Version: 1.1.1   
Target Milestone: 1.3 M1   
Hardware: x86   
OS: Multiple   
Whiteboard: Patch out for review on the mailing list (May 31, 2012)
OS type for building Yocto: --- Type of Regression: ---
Verified: Documentation change: ---

Description David Nyström 2012-05-28 14:16:03 UTC 
bitbake -c menuconfig <package_name> silently fails if there is no ncurses-devel on buildmachine.
devshell pops up only to be terminated due to missing ncurses, without visible error message.
$? == 0, for bitbake command.
Comment 1 Darren Hart 2012-05-31 20:08:35 UTC 
Setting priority and accepting for RP as he has an initial patch out already.
Comment 3 Laurentiu Serban 2012-06-20 11:36:01 UTC 
Verified
Comment 4 Richard Purdie 2012-10-15 20:47:59 UTC 
*** Bug 3284 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***