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
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~Randy
