Re: [PATCH v3] kconfig: be more helpful if pkg-config is missing

[Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>]

On Wed, Nov 6, 2019 at 12:08 AM Alyssa Ross <hi@alyssa.is> wrote:
>
> If ncurses is installed, but at a non-default location, the previous
> error message was not helpful in resolving the situation.  Now it will
> suggest that pkg-config might need to be installed in addition to
> ncurses.
>
> Signed-off-by: Alyssa Ross <hi@alyssa.is>

Applied to linux-kbuild.
Thanks.


> ---
> Apologies -- was a little too hasty in sending v2, and it only
> included the updated message in one of the two files that needed to be
> changed.
>
>  scripts/kconfig/mconf-cfg.sh | 3 +++
>  scripts/kconfig/nconf-cfg.sh | 3 +++
>  2 files changed, 6 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/scripts/kconfig/mconf-cfg.sh b/scripts/kconfig/mconf-cfg.sh
> index c812872d7f9d..aa68ec95620d 100755
> --- a/scripts/kconfig/mconf-cfg.sh
> +++ b/scripts/kconfig/mconf-cfg.sh
> @@ -44,4 +44,7 @@ echo >&2 "* Unable to find the ncurses package."
>  echo >&2 "* Install ncurses (ncurses-devel or libncurses-dev"
>  echo >&2 "* depending on your distribution)."
>  echo >&2 "*"
> +echo >&2 "* You may also need to install pkg-config to find the"
> +echo >&2 "* ncurses installed in a non-default location."
> +echo >&2 "*"
>  exit 1
> diff --git a/scripts/kconfig/nconf-cfg.sh b/scripts/kconfig/nconf-cfg.sh
> index 001559ef0a60..c212255070c0 100755
> --- a/scripts/kconfig/nconf-cfg.sh
> +++ b/scripts/kconfig/nconf-cfg.sh
> @@ -44,4 +44,7 @@ echo >&2 "* Unable to find the ncurses package."
>  echo >&2 "* Install ncurses (ncurses-devel or libncurses-dev"
>  echo >&2 "* depending on your distribution)."
>  echo >&2 "*"
> +echo >&2 "* You may also need to install pkg-config to find the"
> +echo >&2 "* ncurses installed in a non-default location."
> +echo >&2 "*"
>  exit 1
> --
> 2.23.0
>


-- 
Best Regards
Masahiro Yamada