Op zaterdag 10 augustus 2013 16:43:45 schreef Joakim Hernberg: > Hi there, > > I occasionally need to create new kernel config files for the > aur/linux-rt package. Since I try to keep the config as close as > possible to core/linux, I regularly pick up the config files > from core/linux and then apply the changes needed to make a good -rt > kernel. > > My problem is to create config files for i686 as I don't have such a > machine anymore. core/linux has instructions to uncomment make > menuconf/nconfig to configure the kernel, but when I try to configure > the kernel in a chroot using the extra-i686-build script, I can't > navigate the gui, all I get are escape chars printed on the screen. > > I've tried to make ncurses an explicit makedepends, and I've also > checked the TERM variable, which is set to xterm, just as in my normal > shell. No idea what to check for after that, but hopefully someone can > point me to my mistake. > > Many thanks in advance, When you want to configure your kernel, the logging redirection must not be there. so the quickest solution i can think of is edit /usr/bin/makechrootpkg line 171, change the makepkg_args to: makepkg_args='-s --noconfirm' so removing the -L --holdver --holdver you could keep in but since it is not a vcs package it will not make a difference. When you are actually building the kernel, change makechrootpkg back so you have a nice an complete logging -- Ike
