Re: [PATCH] kconfig: do not require pkg-config on make {menu,n}config

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On 08/31/2018 02:34 AM, Masahiro Yamada wrote:
> Meelis Roos reported a {menu,n}config regression:
> 
>  "I have libncurses devel package installed in the default system
>   location (as do 99%+ on actual developers probably) 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 {menu,n}config, do not use pkg-config if it is not installed.
> For {g,x}config, keep checking pkg-config since we really rely on it
> for finding the installation paths of the required packages.
> 
> Fixes: 4ab3b80159d4 ("kconfig: check for pkg-config on make {menu,n,g,x}config")
> Reported-by: Meelis Roos <mroos@xxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Tested-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Thank you.

> ---
> 
>  Documentation/process/changes.rst  |  2 +-
>  scripts/kconfig/Makefile           |  1 -
>  scripts/kconfig/check-pkgconfig.sh |  8 --------
>  scripts/kconfig/gconf-cfg.sh       |  7 +++++++
>  scripts/kconfig/mconf-cfg.sh       | 25 ++++++++++++++-----------
>  scripts/kconfig/nconf-cfg.sh       | 25 ++++++++++++++-----------
>  scripts/kconfig/qconf-cfg.sh       |  7 +++++++
>  7 files changed, 43 insertions(+), 32 deletions(-)
>  delete mode 100644 scripts/kconfig/check-pkgconfig.sh


-- 
~Randy



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